Page 2 - demolizioni

FROM 1870 TO 1910
In 1870 the power of the church ended in Rome and the first Italian government took office. There is a lot of work to do. Immediately the new technicians get to work and study a new master plan.
It will be haste, it will be ignorance but, the first one that was published was really insane! They wanted to cut our building and our garden in two by making us pass a street in the middle!
Although it was never built, this road often appears in maps until 1940!
Apart from the aforementioned road, many radical interventions were carried out.
The first was to build walls on the Tiber to avoid the plagues of flooding.
The second was to build the Altar of the Fatherland. A huge white marble monument placed in the cen- ter of the city to testify the unity of Italy with Rome as the capital. In practice they destroyed an ancient quarter of the 500, including the mighty tower of Paul III, and inserted the new monument there.
As can be seen from the photo, only the buildings necessary to make room for the construction were demolished.
But the "imaginative" master plans continued. The one below plan- ned to pass the railways throughout Rome and, even, the central station in Piazza Venezia next to the monument they were building.