THE EAGLE. The possibility that Palazzo Federici could be purchased by “right of pre-emption” by the Ministry of Culture (the final word belongs to the TAR called into question by two private companies who, in turn, would like to buy it) brings to the fore the story of a building born in the 1930s on the “ashes” of Palazzo Gigotti. An operation that served to create the current Portici as part of an urban renewal wanted by the fascist regime. There is a well-documented book by Paola Maiezza which is entitled “Modern Eagle, projects and interventions in the first half of the 20th century” which reconstructs the urban transformations in the period between the end of the 1920s and the early 1940s. “The work of renewal”, writes Maiezza, “which had already begun at the end of the nineteenth century, found” in the years of the Regime “its moment of maximum development, confirming the close union between urban planning and politics that had characterized the Regime itself. Politics, therefore, according to a dynamic characteristic of fascism, was closely linked to urban planning, initiating, through substantial public and private investments, a series of demolition and reconstruction interventions that would give a new face to the city. Alongside the tracing of new roads, the result of a functionalist logic aimed at making the ancient nucleus accessible to vehicles, there are operations of building replacement, introduction of new typologies and rectification of irregular road alignments. With the demolition of Palazzo Gigotti (1932), on the corner with Piazza Duomo, the portico system was completed which, begun with the rebuilding of the Real Liceo block, connects the square with the Quattro Cantoni”. Over the years, Palazzo Federici has hosted, among other things, the headquarters of the Circolo L’Aquilano and the Cinema Imperiale. (gp)
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