Works, objects and printed matter from Italy between 1922 and 1944, documented from private archives.
Formed in 1927 by the State Railways and ENIT, CIT invented modern mass leisure in Italy, organizing the legendary ‘Treni Popolari’ and exporting the allure of Italian cultural heritage to ticket halls worldwide.
In 1925, alongside the historic railway line skirting the Berici Hills in Vicenza, industrial pioneer Ernesto Gresele established Acciaierie Valbruna.
On September 21, 1924, visionary civil engineer Piero Puricelli inaugurated the world's very first highway exclusively reserved for motor vehicles:
In 1923, within the industrious foothills of the Brianza region, master artisan Alessandro Ciceri founded a modest iron and steel
In 1930, amid the economic turbulence following the Great Depression, twenty-four-year-old Antonino Malaguti opened a humble bicycle repair workshop and
In 1929, against the backdrop of the Wall Street crash and an unusually freezing European winter, Luigi Nocivelli founded an
In 1928, following national hygiene decrees aimed at combating endemic bovine tuberculosis and infant gastrointestinal mortality, the municipality of Naples
On June 1, 1927, in a notary office in central Milan, Istrian-born entrepreneur Elio Bracco signed the founding charter of
On April 3, 1926, by Royal Decree No. 556 signed in Rome, the Italian State established AGIP (*Azienda Generale Italiana
