Curated Itinerary
Romagna Colonie Marine Coast Route — Nine Seaside Colonies from Cattolica to Cervia
Nine seaside colonies along forty kilometres of the Romagna coast, from Busiri Vici’s Le Navi at Cattolica to the Colonia […]
Nine seaside colonies along forty kilometres of the Romagna coast, from Busiri Vici’s Le Navi at Cattolica to the Colonia Montecatini in the Cervia pinewood — a drive through the razionalismo balneare of the interwar years, with the 1912 Colonia Murri as its hygienist prototype. Read the full story in the dedicated article Colonie Marine, 1912–1939: Nine Seaside Colonies of the Romagna Coast, by Stefano Vigolo.
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Colonia Marina XXVIII Ottobre — Le Navi di Cattolica
Clemente Busiri Vici designed the colony as a squadron at anchor. Five long, low buildings line up on the Cattolica seafront like ships moored side by side…
Colonia Bertazzoni — Riccione’s Rationalist Children’s Colony (1930s)
A reinforced-concrete colony shaped like a ship, built around 1930 by one industrialist as a children's seaside colony, today a hospital for sea turtles.
Colonia Marina Dalmine — Greppi’s Rationalist Children’s Colony in Riccione (1936)
Built in 1936 along the Adriatic shore at Riccione, the Colonia Marina Dalmine was commissioned by the Societa Anonima Pro Dalmine to host the children of…
Ex Colonia Reggiana (Amos Maramotti) — Riccione
Built in just three months in 1934, a seaside colony turned diagonally to the coast so every dormitory could follow the sun.
Colonia Novarese — Peverelli’s Rationalist Ship at Miramare di Rimini (1934)
A 117-metre concrete ship run aground at Miramare: Giuseppe Peverelli's 1934 colony is one of the boldest Rationalist buildings on the Adriatic.
Ex Colonia Murri — Rimini
A children's marine hospice from 1912 that read as a hospital and pointed, decades early, toward the rationalist coast Romagna would become.
Colonia AGIP — Cesenatico
One of the great rationalist summer colonies of the Adriatic, raised on pilotis for the children of an oil company — and, unlike its neighbours, still alive.
Colonia Varese di Milano Marittima
Few buildings make the scale of Italian razionalismo balneare as legible as the Colonia Varese. Mario Loreti designed it in 1937 for the Federazione dei…
Ex Colonia Montecatini — Cervia
A six-hectare rationalist summer colony in the Cervia pine forest, built in 1938 and inaugurated days before a war that would reshape it.
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