“Dear Marcella’: the last letter of partisan Orlando
“Dear Marcella when you read this, which will be my last contact with you, I will be in the world where at least I will find some peace, if the good God who can do all things permits”. Thus begins the moving letter that the Montesacro partisan Orlando Orlandi Posti, called Lallo by his friends, […]
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1870, bersaglieri posing at Porta Pia: the Papal State has just surrendered
Of course, the photo is constructed. The bersaglieri are posing above the barricade. But the breach at Porta Pia is still fresh. The cannon shots have finished echoing throughout the area. The Papal States have just raised the white flag after a four-hour siege. At 5 a.m. on 20 September 1870, the Italian artillery had […]
Post-war class photo at “Mazzini”
It would be nice to take a snapshot of the future lives of these boys posing for the fateful class photo in 1948 at the Mazzini School in Via Volsinio. To recognise, perhaps, someone who towards the end of the 1950s, having become an adult, opened a restaurant, a newsagent, a shop in the heart […]
On the ‘Bicycle Thieves’ bus at Porta Pia: the protagonist gets on
Everyine is queuing orderly to get on the bus at the Porta Pia stop. With that hand resting on the shoulder of the person in front, expressing confidence, almost familiarity, and in any case endurance of the crowd in the public transport taken by storm. A popular gesture that seems inspired by the philosophy of […]
Nomentano, when Viale Regina Elena discovered the traffic jams
Line of cars, trams and crowds thronging the sides of the road. We are in the early 1930s: this is the period when Viale Regina Elena discovered traffic jams and began to take on the chaotic and frenetic appearance we are used to today. The shot, dated exactly 1 January 1933, belongs to the Atac […]
Cloths hung out to dry and shacks, this is how Piazza Galeno looked a century ago
Clothes hung out to dry, the dominant green, the shacks and the first small villas in the background. An almost unreal and very different Piazza Galeno as it appears today, the one seen in the early 20th century picture belonging to the Parisi family. The photo is taken from Typimedia Editore’s volume “Come eravamo Nomentano”: […]
Nomentano, the Art Nouveau villa that no longer exists
Nomentano has always been rich in beautiful buildings. Some can still be admired today. Others, however, survive only in the black and white pictures taken by the neighbourhood’s historic residents and jealously guarded in their drawers. Such is the case of the Art Nouveau villa that once stood in Viale XXI Aprile and was demolished […]
1930, all posing on the site of the Edificio Alato (Winged Building), the future Ministry of Aeronautics
Hundreds of workers “popping up” from several floors and taking a short break from work to take a picture that will go down in the history of our neighbourhood. This incredible shot, taken from the book “Come Eravamo Nomentano” (Typimedia Editore), shows the many “workers” who in 1930 were busy constructing the imposing Aeronautica Militare […]