It could have been a tribute to their generation; it became a symbol of their failure. And of the inability of institutions, elites and intellectuals to understand the value of architecture, which in the impossible equilibrium between memory and the future saves or condemns Italy’s only true treasure.

Sentencing it, as Antonio Cederna wrote in 1956, “to the mismanagement of the territory, the decay of cities, the ravaging of nature, the destruction of the landscape and the elimination of the space essential to public health”.