The essay makes a singular journey through Italy falling the fall of Fascism, showing us the varied fate met by buildings and architetural symbols erected by the regime. In an Italy emerging from war defeat and wounded, the notion of destroyng hundreds of buildings put up by the regime for whatever purpose would have been unthinkable, even though they bore a clear stilistic imprint of Fascism. And in effect, in almost every case, these buildings continued in service. So it was that pubblic service of new democratic state found themselves housed in buildings often typifed by the monumental style of Fascist era.
