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Torre Littoria

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The building occupies a little more than two-thirds of a city block, consisting of a 9-storey low-rise section, and a 19-storey high-rise section reaching 87 metres at its roof, upon which rises an antenna tower, giving the building a total height of 109 metres; until 1940 it was the tallest
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its roof mounted one of the 58 air raid sirens in Turin, and the building sustained minor damage during the bombing of 13 July 1943.
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Torre Littoria was built in 1933–34, with the intent of hosting, among other offices, the national headquarters of the
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early 20th-century Italian rationalist architecture
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Italian Rationalism
Turin
Italy
Coordinates
45°04′14″N 7°41′02″E / 45.07047°N 7.683966°E / 45.07047; 7.683966
Turin
rationalist
Italy
Piazza Castello

Piazza Castello, Turin
National Fascist Party
Milan
Rome
early 20th-century Italian rationalist architecture
glass brick
clinker brick
linoleum
structural frame
World War II
Royal Palace of Turin
House of Savoy
eyesore
Duce
mobile phone
La Torre Littoria in Museo Torino
Categories
Skyscrapers in Turin
Modernist architecture in Italy

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