The Foro Italico (inaugurated in 1932 with the name of Foro Mussolini) is a vast sports complex.
The sports complex of the Foro Italico was designed by the architect Enrico Del Debbio between 1927 and 1933.
The initiator of the Forum was Renato Ricci, undersecretary for National Education and founder of the Opera Nazionale Balilla.
For the choice of the area on which to build the forum, three areas were taken into consideration: the Tiburtino district, in the area where the university city was subsequently created (in 1935); the Casal Palocco district; the Parioli district, where in the fifties the Olympic village will be created for the Games of the XVII Olympiad in 1960.
However, all three hypotheses were discarded and an area was chosen, adjacent to the Tiber river, which through reclamation passed from a quagmire to a building area.
The above hill of Monte Mario was also bound by the Superintendency of Fine Arts, which guaranteed the sports complex a natural green background.
The first works of the architectural complex were inaugurated on November 4, 1932: building H, seat of the male Fascist Academy of Physical Education, the Monolith, the Stadio dei Marmi and the Stadio dei Cipressi (later Stadio dei centomila and today's Olympic Stadium).
In 1936 and later until 1941 Luigi Moretti, former author of the Foro Mussolini Academy of fencing, elaborated, without ever realizing them, some expansive projects of the Forum towards Tor di Quinto, inserting Del Debbio's urban plan already completed.
Foro Italico - Foro Mussolini center
Address: Viale del Foro Italico
Phone: 06 0608
Site:
http://www.turismoroma.it/cosa-fare/foro-italicoLocation inserted by
Stefano Vigolo