The magic of freshly baked panettoni, a century ago, in Via Novara
Who knows what Pietro Gentilini is thinking as he watches, with folded arms, that row of freshly baked panettone in the biscuit factory that bears his name? He seems proud of that cake that during the Christmas holidays characterised the production of the historic confectionery company located right in the heart of Trieste-Salario, on the […]
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Maestro Manzi and that special bond with Nomentano
He took Italians by the hand, teaching them that ‘it is never too late’ to learn. Alberto Manzi, for everyone simply Maestro Manzi, appeared on television in 1960. In this photo, taken from the volume “Come eravamo. Nomentano 1865-1960” by Typimedia Editore, the teacher can be seen on the set of the television programme that […]
Rome in black and white: Corso Trieste in the 1930s
That row of majestic pine trees, too often unfortunately affected by falls and criticality, could barely be glimpsed at the time. The trees were young and petite and the route of the street ran along what was once the Sant’Agnese ditch. This is how Corso Trieste looked in the 1930s, as shown by a period […]
The vanished Rome, Porta Salaria and the horse-drawn buggys
The sound of horses’ hooves pulling carriages and buggys on the district’s still unpaved roads has been replaced by the sounds of a modern metropolis: the chaos of traffic, horns, buses coming to a stop. Yet just looking at a picture like this is enough to take a real plunge into the past. So here […]
Via delle Alpi, when Trieste-Salario was “out of town”
A dirt road, almost like a country road, and then the first traces of the neighbourhood beginning to take shape. We are at the beginning of the twentieth century: this picture of Via delle Alpi, seen from Piazza Caprera, tells of the birth of a district, elegant and discreet, but still considered “out of town”. […]
Recreation at San Leone Magno in the early 1900s
Children wrapped in dark aprons, on which conspicuous white bows stand out, enjoying a moment of freedom in the outdoor space of the school. We are in 1943 at San Leone Magno, an institution in this neighbourhood run by the Congregation of the Marist Brothers, an order that has dedicated itself to the Christian and […]
That wedding in the Trieste area in the vanished location
Confirmations, weddings, celebrations: in the first half of the twentieth century this neighbourhood became one of the most fascinating areas of Rome, rich in public and private history. This is demonstrated by this shot, taken from Typimedia Editore’s volume “Come Eravamo Trieste-Salario”. It is May 1937: the shot depicts the celebrations of a wedding between […]
A row of saplings and the first council house: the origin of Viale Jonio
The almost unpaved road, the row of recently planted saplings. And, in the background, the first counsil houses peeping out. Viale Jonio in the 1940s is almost unrecognisable. The photo, kept in the Parish of Santa Maria Assunta al Tufello, is taken from the Typimedia Editore volume “Come Eravamo Montesacro”. Families crossing the threshold of […]
Roman industrialists and shopkeepers at a banquet 110 years ago. Without women
Pietro Gentilini, with his biscuit factory between Via Alessandria and Via Novara, was an important figure in the Trieste-Salario economy in the early years of the last century. The artisan workshop established in 1890 grew to an industrial dimension in just a few years. From the family’s historical archive emerges this extraordinary photo of Pietro […]
What Piazza Sempione looked like over 90 years ago
The bus stops, the parked cars, the hustle and bustle of traffic. Imagine that all this disappears, that the time clock takes a giant leap backwards to the late 1930s. We discover a sparsely populated and extremely charming Piazza Sempione, where we catch a glimpse of a child playing in the street and a couple […]