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Times | 20 Agosto 1936

The Times |  August 20, 1936

The Times | August 20, 1936

Duce’s Help With Threshing FROM OUR OWVN CORRESPONDENT ROME, AUG. 19 Continuing a now well-established custom, Signor Mussolini to-dav paid his annual visit to the cornfields of the former Pontine Marshes to lend a hand in thresh- ing the grain. Early in the morning the Duce, himself piloting the aeroplane, flew from Forli to Littoria and thence drove to the township of Pontinia. Here, throw- ing off his coat, he mounted a threshing- machine and laboured for an hour under a hot sun feeding into the machine the wheat which was part of that he himself had sown in the district last December.

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Times | 20 Dicembre, 1934

The Times |  December 20, 1934

The Times | December 20, 1934

Reclamation In Italy FROM. OUR ONV CORRESPONDENT ROME, DEC. 19 Signor Mussolini, who took part last night in a popular festival at Littoria in which the inhabitants wore the traditional costumes of their old homes and danced their local dances, this morning laid the first stone of Pontinia, the third commune to be built in the area of the Pontine marshes. 1Hc announced at the same time that two other communes, to be named Ausonia and Aprilia, would be founded in October, 1935,and 1936.

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Times | 29 Giugno, 1935

Il Duce trebbia il grano a Pontinia - foto e didascalia dal Times del 25/06/1935

Il Duce trebbia il grano a Pontinia - foto e didascalia dal Times del 25/06/1935

Duce’s Visit To Pontine Marshes FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ROME, JUNE 28 Signor Mussolini yesterday made his annual visit to the reclaimed lands of Littoria and Sabaudia in the Pontine Marshes. In 1932 the harvest at Littoria was 43,065 quintals from an area of 4,115 hectares; this year the figure -will exceed 140,000 quintals from 14,102 hectares. In the same period the population has risen from 5,116 to 22,648. At Littoria, where there was a parade of 250 of its men who have volunteered for service in East Africa, Signor Musso- lini first laid. the foundation-stone of a beet sugar factory which represents the first attempt to give an industrial turn to the development of the reclaimed areas.

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Municipio

Facciata posteriore del Municipio di Pontinia

Facciata posteriore del Municipio di Pontinia

Nell’architettura del municipio è sintetizzata la vocazione rurale con la quale fu concepita e realizzata tutta Pontinia nel 1935. Decorazioni, materiali pregiati ed il carattere di monumentalità sono ridotti ai minimi termini e sopravvivono solo nelle riquadrature delle finestre che percorrono il piano superiore sottolineando angoli e volumi. L’uso del paramento a cortina ed il sapiente impiego del travertino imprimono forza e sottolineano la muscolatura del corpo dell’edificio.

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Cimelio dell'inaugurazione di Pontinia

Fotografia d'epoca del Duce che versa l'oro della PatriaGli autori di pontiniaweb, nell’incessante raccolta e redazione di materiale da pubblicare sul portale, si sono imbattutti in un’asta on-line sull’edizione americana del portale ebay relativa ad un “cimelio” risalente alla cerimonia di inaugurazione di Pontinia.

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