Conoscenza e trasmissione del patrimonio urbano romano. Piazza Montanara

From the beginning of the 1870s until the mid-1930s, a series of major transformations were un-dertaken to modernize the city of Rome, which irreversibly changed its appearance. Between 1929 and 1933, the urban area extending under the western slopes of the Campidoglio was subjected to substantial gutting for the opening of the Via del Mare, with the twofold aim of redeveloping and exalting the monuments of classical Rome under fascist ideology and directing the expansion of the city towards Ostia. The present work aims to reconstruct the fabric that constituted the area of Piazza Montanara with the objective of enhancing and disseminating knowledge of a heritage that has disappeared and making its tangible and intangible values accessible once again with a view to filling this void in the collective memory. In this sense, through the architectural-perceptual recovery of the urban reality of the early 1930s, the aim is to reconstruct the spatial genesis that characterized Piazza Montanara, methodologically based on the analysis of various historical sources such as the photo-graphs of the Demolition Fund commissioned by the Department of Antiquities and Fine Arts of the Governorate, which represent a rich and reliable document of this historical moment.