The Great War, Fascism and the Athens Chater: Difficulty of the Italian Route

Abstract

The Athens Charter, which came out of the 1931 Conference, constitutes a vital hub for the growth of a shared European policy on restoration and monuments’ protection. It is a document whose background is extremely dense with experimentation and whose immediate future will be swallowed up by the tragedy of the Second World War. Precisely for this reason it is not useless to consider some shadows that characterize the Italian contribution to the works, resulted from the readjustment of the need of social and moral cohesiveness, emerging from the Great War, as a function of the construction of a fascist identity.