Itineraries

A road trip through the real places behind The Dukes of Hazzard, and a reminder of how far apart a television county can be scattered. Two stops sit around Covington, Georgia, the town that played Hazzard County from 1979 to 1985 and where the General Lee did its stunts: the filming locations themselves, and the Boar’s Nest — Boss Hogg’s roadhouse, where Daisy waited tables, a plain brick building outside town that is now a church. The third stop is two hundred and fifty miles north, in Nashville: Cooter’s Place, the garage of Cooter Davenport made real as a museum, run by the actor who played him, where the General Lee still lives. Four hundred and seventy kilometres of driving between a Georgia square and a Tennessee garage — which, for this particular show, is the right way to see it.

Some fifty kilometres separate the two cities in which Giuseppe Terragni did his work, and four buildings are enough to follow him from the first statement to the last. Como holds two. The Novocomum, completed in 1929 when the architect was twenty-five, is the apartment block that announced him. The Casa del Fascio, designed between 1932 and 1936, is the single most studied building of Italian Rationalism, and the hardest building on this route to look at calmly. Then Milan, and two apartment houses built with Pietro Lingeri: Casa Rustici on Corso Sempione, designed in 1933 and completed in 1935, and the smaller Casa Toninello on Via Perasto, in Isola. Private commissions and party commissions by the same hand in the same decade: the contradiction is the point, and it is not resolved here.

Ten heritage cities in one September loop through Belgium: the Art Nouveau of Brussels, the béguinage of Leuven and the

Ten heritage places in one September loop through the Netherlands: the canal ring of Amsterdam and the fort lines that

Between the wars Ferrara rebuilt a good part of itself, and much of it was drawn by one municipal engineer. Three stops in the city are Carlo Savonuzzi’s. The Stadio Paolo Mazza, inaugurated on 20 September 1928 as the Stadio Littorio Comunale, is among the oldest grounds still in use in Italy. The monumental aqueduct on Piazza XXIV Maggio, designed between 1930 and 1932, is the most theatrical piece of infrastructure the period left here. The Scuola Alda Costa, built in red brick between 1932 and 1933, is the plainest of the three. The fourth stop is twenty-five kilometres east, out on the plain: Tresigallo, Edmondo Rossoni’s new town of 1933–39, the most intact foundation town of the rationalist period. The same decade at two scales — a city repairing itself, and a town invented from nothing. Stefano Vigolo tells the full story in a separate article.

Ten heritage cities in one September loop across Germany, west to east: the Gothic cathedral of Cologne, Charlemagne’s Aachen, Roman

Ten heritage places in one September loop through England: the Tower of London, Canterbury, Stonehenge and Georgian Bath in the