Casa del Mutilato di Napoli
A severe stone block near Piazza Matteotti, raised for the war-disabled and carved in the monumental language of its decade.
At a glance
The Casa del Mutilato rises on Via Armando Diaz, between Piazza Matteotti and Via Guantai Nuovi, in the Rationalist quarter rebuilt in the heart of Naples in the 1930s. Designed by Camillo Guerra and built between 1938 and 1940, it was raised as the seat of the National Association of War Disabled and Mutilated (ANMIG), which still occupies it.
Key facts
- Built: 1938–1940 (inaugurated 1940)
- Architect: Camillo Guerra
- Style: Italian Rationalism
- Owner: Associazione Nazionale Mutilati ed Invalidi di Guerra (ANMIG)
- Coordinates: 40.8426, 14.2509 — Google Maps
History
The building belongs to the wholesale clearance and rebuilding of the Rione Carità, the central district remade in the later 1930s around the new Palazzo delle Poste. Camillo Guerra designed the Casa del Mutilato, built in 1938–1940 and inaugurated in 1940.
Like the other Case del Mutilato raised across Italy in the same years, its decoration carried the rhetoric of the Fascist regime — themes of labour, victory and military conquest in the Hall of Honour. It is read today as a document of that period as much as a work of architecture.
What you see
Two blocks of piperno stone flank the portal, carved by Vico Consorti and Giuseppe Pellegrini. Above the monumental staircase in the entrance atrium stands a statue of Victory.
The exterior is austere and geometric, faced in pale stone, with the stripped monumentality typical of Italian public building at the end of the 1930s.
Practical information
- Seat of ANMIG; an institutional building, not a regular visitor site.
- The facade and portal sculptures are visible from the street.
- A few steps from the Post Office and the Banco di Napoli.
Getting there
The Casa del Mutilato is on Via Armando Diaz, central Naples, between Piazza Matteotti and Via Toledo. The area is served by Metro Line 1 (Toledo and Municipio stations) and many bus lines.
Nearby
- Palazzo delle Poste (Naples)
- Galleria Umberto I
- Piazza Matteotti
Sources
- Wikipedia, “Casa del Mutilato (Napoli)”
- ANMIG — Associazione Nazionale Mutilati ed Invalidi di Guerra
- Studies on the Rationalist Rione Carità
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