On the occasion of the 172nd Anniversary, the State Police exhibited an exhibition of comics dedicated to Commissioner Mascherpa and cars and motorbikes in the Galleria Alberto Sordi, the Rome salon, recently reopened to the public after a long restyling operation
Although little more than a hundred years old, the gallery boasts a very troubled history. It all began in 1889 with the demolition of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Piombino. In fact, after 1870 with the proclamation of Rome as Capital, the Chamber of Deputies of the new Italian state had settled in Montecitorio, in the immediate vicinity of Piazza Colonna; the institutional importance of the new offices and the provisions of the new master plan of 1883 – which provided for the connection between Piazza Barberini and the Prati di Castello district through the new road axis of Via del Tritone – made the enlargement of the square and the arrangement of the traffic in that stretch of Via del Corso, urban planning issues of great importance. The debate between the hypothesis of dismantling the palace or transforming the building itself into other shapes and proportions became increasingly heated until, despite the absence of an alternative project, Palazzo Piombino was demolished between June and December 1889. The works for the construction of the at
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