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What kind of city was the Fascist ´third Rome´? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, ´revolutionary´ future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis explores this through a journey across the sites, monuments, and buildings of the fascist capital.

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Introduction 1. The Fascist Conquest of Rome 2. Fascism and the City: Architecture and Urban Eutopia 3. Fascism and Romanita: Framing the Ancient Imperial City 4. Fascism and the ´City of the Popes´ 5. The Fascist Layer (I): The Quest for ´Signature´ Buildings 6. The Fascist Layer (II): Building for Grandeur and Necessity 7. Fascism in Mostra: Exhibitions as Heterotopias 8. Rome and the Dream of Fascist Universalism Conclusion

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Aristotle Kallis is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the study of European fascism/the extreme right, interwar modernism, and mass violence. His principal publications include Genocide and Fascism (2009), Nazi Propaganda in the Second World War (2005), and The Fascism Reader (2003).

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