Latina (Littoria) Founded City Walk — Frezzotti’s Rationalist Centre

Latina was founded in 1932 as Littoria, the first of the new towns on the drained Pontine Marshes, and almost everything in its centre was drawn by one architect. Five stops, two kilometres. Oriolo Frezzotti’s Palazzo Comunale stands at the centre of his own radial plan, its travertine clock tower visible from across the town. The Palazzo del Governo of 1932 anchors Piazza della Libertà with a sober monumentality. The cathedral of San Marco went up in 1932–33, at the same time as the town around it. Palazzo M, built from 1938, is a four-storey block laid out in the shape of an M. The walk ends at the Museo della Terra Pontina, in the monumental former palace of the Opera Nazionale Combattenti. One hand, one decade, and a whole town centre to read it on. Stefano Vigolo tells the full story in a separate article.