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| | ViaVenetoRoma.it - Rome's tourist guide - Events, itineraries, museums, exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The area on which EUR stands was chosen at the end of the 1930s as the site for the Rome Universal Exhibition (Esposizione Universale di Roma, hence the acronym EUR), a great international exhibition which was supposed to open in 1942, exactly twenty years after the advent of fascism. |
 | | The idea was to house the exhibition in a complex of impressive structures, built to last, and the architect Marcello Piacentini was made project manager. |
 | | Prominent among the most important buildings is the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro, better known in Rome as the Square Colosseum, designed by the architects Guerrini, Lapadula and Romano. |
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