In 1930s Arpinati commissioned a building phase around Bologna to house the families of those fascists who were either “killed, maimed or injured during the revolution.” Architects were: Franco Albini, Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. A total of 3,500 tenants were eventually housed. The buildings now though are badly neglected and run down.

About The Fascist Revolutionary Quarter

The Fascist Revolutionary Quarter

On one corner of Via Andrea Costa are these ordinary rundown looking buildings. Leandro Arpinati, who was the podestà in Bologna commissioned the project between 1936-38 at various locations on the out-skirts of the city. At the time the area was classified as the ‘Villaggio della revoluzione fascista’ which translates as the Fascist Revolutionary Quarter because it was built for the sole purpose to house the families of those fascists who were “killed, maimed or injured during the revolution.”

The organisation behind this initiative was called the ‘Istituto fascista per le Case Popolari.’

Franco Albini, Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti were the architects involved having actually taking their lead from a young Milanese Francesco Santini. Each building consists of 11 co-sharing apartments with a total of 56 rooms on 4 floors while a nursery school was established in the middle of it all.

It’s the most symbolic example of the type of housing that was built during that period in Bologna eventually housing some 3,500 tenants.

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