Holiday colonies for Italian youth during Fascism

Thousands of summer colonies were created for youth in Fascist Italy. Most were temporary structures set up to assist children only during the daytime; dozens became the concrete symbol of the totalitarian project undertaken by Fascism to shape “new Italians” starting from childhood. The colonies promoted by the organizations of the regime, state agencies and industrial companies, due to a lack of precise “models” of reference for the architects involved, presents a highly varied expressive panorama, reflecting the complexity of the architectural debate in those years.