Day 62.

It's been a long but awesome day. I started off by going to the Swedish embassy to vote (The European elections) and then went on a spontaneous excursion to EUR to spend some time among the fascists remains.

Arriving at the institute about 30 seconds before our lecture started I sat down and stared taking notes and 13 min after the lecture we went to see the Priscilla catacombs. No pictures from that site though as the nuns very friendly asked us not to.

To see some more Fascist monuments in Rome take a look at day 50 and 44.


This is fascist building which soon got known as the Colosseo Quadrato due to it's unusual shape. It was originally planned to hold statues in every niche of great Italian and Roman leaders something which was cancelled with the fall of the fascists.


A relief depicting great moments in the history of Rome. Notice Romelus and Remus in the top left corner, Caesar on a horse, Augustus in the center, Titus and the spoils of Jerusalem (the Menorah, the seven armed Jewish candelabra), the church state, and at last the glorious (?) rule of Mussolini himself.



A obelisk, not a monolith lite this one but yet.

Day 44.

Ah, there is nothing like a fascist tour of Rome, taking a look at all the (not so) beautiful monuments from the era! Here's some shots!


A monolith (carved from one single stone, mono being single, lith being stone in Greek) obelisk (not going to explain that one, google it) inscribed with the text MVSSOLINI DUX (Mussolini the leader). The thing was put in place by the fascists in 1932 and weighs about 390 tons.


Well, to begin with, placing a mosaic saying DUCE DUCE DUCE (leader, Mussolini’s nick name) x 4 is rather egocentric. Keeping it after the fascist era is…Ehm… yeah…


When finished in 1938, this was to be the main entrance to the Austrian institute in Rome. There were some problems though, to begin with one: the war kind of shut it down before it really could start working. Secondly, it wasn’t very popular after the war that Hitler himself had inaugurated the building using these stairs. They’ve not been used ever since…


What’s left of the Servian walls that were built after the invasion of the Gauls 390 BC.


Oh my God… Where do I buy one of these!?


They take posters to a completely new level here…


This is one of the many hills in Rome, some steeper than others, posted simply because it’s beautiful.