League's Latina proposal 'nostalgia op' says Piccolotti

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 2 - Elisabetta Piccolotti, a lawmaker with the opposition Green-Left Alliance (AVS), slammed a proposal presented by League party MP Giovanna Miele on Wednesday at the Lower House's culture committee to include the "Fascist and rationalist architecture of Latina as a UNESCO world heritage site, alongside the historic centres of Florence and Venice, the Dolomites and other extraordinary locations of our country".
    "What is the exceptional universal value, for the whole world, that can be attributed to Palazzo M, which evoked the first letter of the head of Fascism Mussolini, according to Miele?", wondered Piccolotti, speaking about the building built between 1938 and 1942 in the Lazio city. Latina is a city built by Benito Mussolini in 1932 on the old Pontine Marshes in the Lazio region near Rome.
    Its original Fascist name was Littoria, a referance to the "lictors", the Roman troops who carried the bundles of fasces, evoking the party's name, but was renamed Latina after WWII.
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