Former Istituto Luce factory, Via Tuscolana

A long, weathered industrial building stands behind a brick wall and trees, seen from the road. — The former Istituto Luce complex on Via Tuscolana, viewed from the street behind a low brick boundary wall and mature pines. Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Roma · Tuscolana · Industrial heritage

A derelict early twentieth-century industrial complex on Via Tuscolana in Rome, identified by the contributor as the former Istituto Luce film studios. The buildings stand abandoned behind a brick boundary wall, their current status uncertain from the photographs alone.

At a glance

The site lies on the south-eastern side of Via Tuscolana, behind a low brick wall and mature pines. According to Stefano Vigolo’s notes, the address is Via Tuscolana 1055 and the complex is the ex stabilimento dell’Istituto Luce. No published document in the sources found confirms this identification or gives a construction date.

Key facts

Where: Via Tuscolana 1055, Roma (according to Stefano Vigolo’s notes)
What: Building
When: not documented in the sources found
GPS: 41.8548, 12.5722 · Open in Google Maps

What is known, and what is believed

The photographs taken in 2010 show a long, two-storey concrete structure with stained facades, graffiti and boarded windows. No published document in the sources found names this building or gives its history. According to Stefano Vigolo’s notes, the subject is the ex stabilimento dell’Istituto Luce in Via Tuscolana 1055, Roma. The Istituto Luce is believed to have used the premises as a film production facility, but no document in the sources found confirms this.

What you see

The photograph shows a long, weathered industrial block behind a brick wall. The facade is of unpainted concrete, stained by exposure, with rectangular windows boarded up in brown. Graffiti marks the wall at street level. Hedges and pine trees partly screen the building from the road.

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Nearby

Istituto Nazionale Luce — the institution to which the factory is believed to have belonged

Gallery

A two-story concrete building with graffiti and brown-boarded windows, behind hedges and a brick wall. — The abandoned factory buildings showing stained facades, graffiti, and boarded windows above clipped hedges and a brick wall Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

A weathered concrete building with boarded windows and graffiti sits behind a brick wall and a light pole. — A corner view of the derelict Istituto Luce building, with graffiti markings and a brick boundary wall along the sidewalk Photo: Stefano Vigolo, 2010.

Sources

Roma Capitale, Ex stabilimento Mira Lanza, Roma Capitale e Università Roma Tre insieme per la riqualificazione: no mention of the Istituto Luce or Via Tuscolana 1055; cited only to show that no published source on this subject was found
Stefano Vigolo, photographs and notes to the editorial staff (2026): identification of the subject as the ex stabilimento dell’Istituto Luce, Via Tuscolana 1055. Not a published source

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