On the occasion of the twenty-fifth Jubilee, the new guide to Rome is released, which is not only enriched by works that have given it the appellation of “Eternal City,” with those monuments that still preserve the stories of a strong people, such as the Colosseum, the Roman Forum or Castel Sant’Angelo, just as it is not only the symbolic center of Christianity thanks to St. Peter’s Basilica or the nerve and figurative center of the Italian Republic with the Quirinal Palace. Rome’s history, art and culture tell of a process of restoration and innovation in which some timeless places participate and contemporary ones are born to serve the community. Another iconic period in Rome starts from the 1930s, in which the social and cultural revolution and the need for functionality and functioning were represented by imposing modern works and major operations signed by architects who were protagonists in the urban and urbanistic change of the capital, including Piacentini, Quaroni, Fiorentino, Ridolfi and Moretti. Works such as the Sapienza university city and its institutes, the INA-CASA neighborhoods and the EUR district tell the story of the formal transition between modernity and contemporaneity.

Ilia Celiento, an architect and PhD in Theories and Design of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome and in History and Theory of Architecture at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, lives and works in Barcelona.