Mussolini & the Palazzo dei Marescialli

Piazza dell' Indipendenza

Helmeted head of Benito Mussolini, Palazzo dei Marescialli

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One of the most remarkable surviving testaments to Mussolini's Rome is the Palazzo dei Marescialli dei Italia (Palace of the Marshals of Italy), which was opened on April 21st 1938.

Although there were officially two Marshals of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini, it is the face of il Duce that adorns the building. An image of his helmeted head surmounts each of the windows of the piano nobile. 

The windows of the ground floor are surmounted by the imperial eagle. 

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Palazzo dei Marescialli