Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Production: FABRICA These photographs created specifically for this Festival document an almost unknown chapter of recent Italian history. During the years of the Cold War, the Italian State decided to strengthen its North-Eastern defence line with funds provided by NATO. This resulted in an ex novo organised system of permanent fortifications to stop any eventual attack by countries belonging to the Warsaw pact. In addition to building defensive structures, in 1975 twenty-five new infantry battalions were created and assumed responsibility for managing and defending these fortifications until 1996. With the fall of the Soviet Union both the fortifications and the battalions guarding them were progressively dismantled. This research is addressed at investigating those currently abandoned buildings that portray so well the end of a historical era, that of the "cold war", that so greatly marked 20th century history. Museo di Roma in Trastevere Piazza S. Egidio, 1 b 00153 Roma Italia 06 5816563 www.comune.roma.it/museodiroma.trastevere OPENING TIME: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 - 20 closed on Monday (Tickets are sold until h. 19) TICKETS: integrated entrance ticket exhibitions + museum EURO 4 - reduced EURO 3 COME ARRIVARE: Bus: n. H, 23, 44,75, 116, 280, j4 Tram: n. 3, 8