Abstract
The Via della Conciliazione is the thoroughfare that leads to St. Peter's basilica in Rome. Designed under the Fascist regime in 1936 by Marcello Piacentini and Attilio Spaccarelli, it is often dismissed as a reprehensible intervention in a historic site. However, it managed to carry out the long-sought restructuring of the Vatican Borgo area; succeeded in framing St. Peter's, with its problematic facade, in a new vista; made concrete the union of church and state authorized by the Lateran Pact, imperative to Mussolini's political agenda; and exemplifies strategies of urban planning widely used in Fascist Rome.
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