Curated Itinerary
Case del Fascio — a Thematic Route in Five Buildings, from Como to Tirana
A thematic chain, not a day trip: five surviving case del fascio across Italy and Albania, each with a different […]
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From Casa del Fascio – Virtual Tour 360° to Mother Teresa Square and the former Casa del Fascio, Tirana, in the order we curated them.
➤ Turn on the navigator in Google MapsIt opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.
A thematic chain, not a day trip: five surviving case del fascio across Italy and Albania, each with a different afterlife. Terragni’s glass-and-marble paradigm in Como, De Giorgio’s rural series at Rubano, the largest small-town headquarters at Predappio, the Bolzano block with its Hannah Arendt counter-monument, and Bosio’s export at the head of Tirana’s boulevard. Read the full story in the dedicated article One Building Type, Five Fates: The Case del Fascio from Como to Tirana, by Stefano Vigolo.
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Casa del Fascio – Virtual Tour 360°
The Casa del Fascio in Como, designed by Giuseppe Terragni between 1932 and 1936, is the single most studied building of Italian Rationalism. A perfect…
Ex Casa del Fascio — Rubano (Quirino De Giorgio, 1937–1939)
Rubano (1937–1939): one of the rural party houses Quirino De Giorgio built across the Padua countryside, a brick block that still carries its stone…
Casa del Fascio di Predappio
The former Casa del Fascio in Predappio is the largest party headquarters built in any small Italian town during the Fascist regime. Inaugurated in 1937 at…
Casa del Fascio (Bolzano) — Mussolini’s Bas-Relief and the Hannah Arendt Counter-Monument (1939-1942)
The former headquarters of the Italian Fascist Party in Bolzano carries the largest surviving figurative fascist bas-relief in Italy — 36 metres of…
Mother Teresa Square and the former Casa del Fascio, Tirana
The monumental square Gherardo Bosio built in 1939-41 at the head of Tirana's boulevard as Piazza del Littorio: its Casa del Fascio is today…
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PDF is the stop list with GPS, to print or keep on the phone. GPX for Garmin / Komoot / OsmAnd. KML for Google Earth and Maps.
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It opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.
To keep the route in the app instead of opening it once, download the KML above and import it into Google My Maps — Create a new map, then Import: the route then sits among your own maps in Google Maps, with the stops and our notes attached to each one.