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COLONIE MARINE / SEASIDE COLONIES - TYRRHENIAN SEA

Colonie marine - Seaside colonies - Adriatic Sea
Colonie marine - Seaside colonies - Sicily
Colonie marine - Seaside colonies - Sardinia
Colonie montane - Mountain colonies
Colonie elioteraphiche - Daytime colonies


Sorted in order of regions and provinces from North to South.
Grey characters after name mark not realized designs.
Grey characters after clients mark post war clients.
Question marks indicate unsecure data.

This list only contains buildings built between 1922 to 1944.
To colonies converted hotels, villas and other buildings are not recorded.


 
 

Liguria
  Imperia (IM) 
   Colonia Pontificia Biellese
 

other name:


address:Imperia - Porto Maurizio (IM)
via d'Annunzio
client: 
architect: 
year: 
capacity:demolished
state:

 
Savona (SV) 
  

Colonia "Santa Maria Ausiliatrice" C.I.F.

 

other name:

 
address:Spotorno (SV),
Salita ai Frati 4
client:C.I.F. - Centro Italiana Femminile,
ADMA - Associazione di Maria Ausiliatrice
architect: 
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia "Ponte San Pietro"

 

other name:

 
address:Spotorno (SV),
via Aurelia
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

demolished
  

Colonia Figli Dipendenti Comunale - Milano

 

other name:

 
address:Andora marina (SV),
largo Milano
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia Milanese I.N.A.M.L.

 

other name:

7 more pictures and
further information
address:Andora marina (SV),
vicolo Sant'Andrea
client:I.N.A.M.L. - Istituto per l'assistenza di malattia ai lavoratori
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

demolished
  

Colonia marina Astigiana "IX Maggio"

 

other name:

9 more pictures and
further information
address:Andora marina (SV),
via Aurelia
client:Direzione Generale degli Italiani all'Estero
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia "Santa Rita"

 

other name:

 
address:Laigueglia (SV),
via Conzesione
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina ACT

 

other name:

 
address:Laigueglia (SV), ?
client:A.C.T. - Alleanza Cooperativa Torinese
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina permanente Alto Milanese

 

other name:

Colonia Azzuro Trevigliese

7 more pictures and
further information
address:Ceriale (SV),
lungomare Generale Armando Diaz
client:Alto Milano, Bagnolo Mella?
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

demolished
  

Colonia marina "Vincenzo Lancia"

 

other name:

7 more pictures and
further information
address:Finale Ligure (SV),
via Aurelia
client:Lancia, Turin
architect:  
year:1935?
capacity:  
state:

2003 demolished
  

Colonia marina "Vittorio Emanuele III ed Elena"

 

other name:

Colonia Cittą di Torino

8 more pictures and
further information
address:Loano (SV),
via delle Olivette
client:City of Turin?
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

partly school,
partly abandoned
  

Colonia Torino temporanea "Luigi Giuliani"

 

other name:

Colonia Patronato scolastico di Torino

 
address:Loano (SV),
via Aurelia
client: 
architect:  
year:1931?
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia permanente "Umberto di Savoia"

 

other name:

Colonia Oberdan

 
address:Pietra Ligure (SV),
via Guglielmo Oberdan 7
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia "XXVIII Ottobre"

 

other name:

 
address:Pietra Ligure (SV),
via San Damiano
client:Federazione dei Fasci di Combattimenti di Brescia
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia "Giovinezza"

 

other name:

Colonia infantile Comasca

 
address:Pietra Ligure (SV),
via Riviera delle Palme
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia Legnano

 

other name:

Colonia POA Legnano

 
address:Pietra Ligure (SV),
via Nazario Sauro
client:P.O.A. - Pontificia Opera di Assistenza di Legnano
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia balneare Milanese, Padiglione "Carlo Baslini"

 

other name:

Colonia Opera Pia per la cura balneare marina - Milano

 
address:Celle Ligure (SV),
via Aurelia Levante
client:IPAB - Istituzioni pubbliche di assistenza e beneficenza
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

abandoned
  

Colonia balneare Milanese, Il Secondo Padiglione

 

other name:

Colonia Opera Pia per la cura balneare marina - Milano

 
address:Celle Ligure (SV),
via Aurelia Levante
client:IPAB - Istituzioni pubbliche di assistenza e beneficenza
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

abandoned
  

Colonia balneare Milanese, Padiglione "Rodolfo Sessa"

 

other name:

Colonia Opera Pia per la cura balneare marina - Milano

 
address:Celle Ligure (SV),
via Aurelia Levante
client:IPAB - Istituzioni pubbliche di assistenza e beneficenza
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

abandoned
  

Colonia marina Cottolegno

 

other name:

 
address:Celle Ligure (SV),
via Aurelia Levante
client:Istituto Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

Colonia
Genova (GE) 
  

Colonia marina PNF Genova di Chiavari

 

other name: 

Colonia marina "Gustavo Fara"

12 more pictures,
21 photos,
4 plans, and
further information

address:Chiavari (GE),
via Preti 15
client:Federazione dei Fasci di Combattimenti di Genova
architect: Camillo Nardi Greco
year:1935
capacity: 400
state:

abandoned
  

Colonia Soc. An. Eternit

 

other name:

 
address:Lavagna (GE)
client:Soc. An. Eternit
architect:
year:1933
capacity:  
state:


  

Colonia "IX Maggio"

 

other name:

Colonia Cartiere Burgo

9 more pictures,
13 photos, and
further information
address:Moneglia (GE),
via W. Burgo 9/11
client: 
architect: geom. Gracchi,
Ufficio tecnico Cartiere Burgo
year:1938
capacity:  
state:

refurbished, senior citizens' residence
La Spezia (SP) 
  

Colonia marina Snia Viscosa

 

other name:

 
address:Monterosso al Mare (SP),
strada vicinala Barcą
client:Snia Viscosa, Turin
architect: 
year:24 June 1928
capacity:  
state:

refurbished
  

Colonia "Nove Maggio" di La Spezia

 

other name:

Colonia "Italo Balbo",
Colonia marina Olivetti,
Colonia "Gioventł Italiana",
Colonia "Caritas Ambrosiana"

15 more pictures,
13 photos, and
further information
address:Marinella di Sarzana (SP),
viale Litoraneo 110
client:P.N.F. - Partito Nazionale di Fascista di La Spezia,
Olivetti (Ivrea),
Caritas Ambrosiana
architect: geom. Beretta
year:1938
capacity:  
state:

abandoned
  Tuscany
  Massa-Carrara (MA)
   Colonia Femminile della Federazione di Vercelli
 

other name:

Villagio marino dell'Opera Balilla di Milano e Torino

 
address:Marina di Carrara (MS),
viale Galileo Galilei
client:O.N.B. - Opera Nazionale Balilla di Milano e Torino
architect: Francesco Mansutti,
Gino Miozzo
year:1937
capacity:500
state:

rebuilt and refurbished
  

Colonia marina FIAT "Edoardo Agnelli"

 

other name:

Torre Balilla

 
address:Marina di Massa (MS),
viale a Mare / via S. Francesco
client:Fiat, Turin
architect: Vittorio Bonadč Bottino
year:1933
capacity: 750
state:

hotel
  

Colonia marina Parmenese "Vittorio Emanuele III"

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Massa (MS),
via Lungomare di Ponente /
via del Casone
client:City of Parma?
architect:  
year:1926
capacity: 1000
state:

 
  

Colonia marina dei Fasci Femminili di Milano

 

other name:

  
address:Marina di Massa (MS), ?
client:City of Milan?
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina Senese

 

other name:

Colonia Mutilanti,
Colonia "Don Gnocchi"

 
address:Marina di Massa (MS),
via Lungomare di Ponente /
via Istriana
client:since 1945 Fondazione Pro Juventute "Don Carlo Gnocchi"
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina Senese "Ettore Motta"

 

other name:

Colonia marina Gruppo Edison

 
address:Marina di Massa (MS),
via Lungomare di Ponente
client:Edison, Mailand
architect:  
year:1926/27
capacity: 1000
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "XXVIII Ottobre"

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Massa (MS),
viale a mare
client:Federazione dei Fasci di combattimento di Torino
architect: Ettore Sot-Sas,
Alfio Guaitoli
year:1936
capacity: 1016
state:

youth hostel
  

Colonia marina "Luigi Cadorna"

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Massa (MS),
via Lungomare di Ponente
client:C.R.I. - Croce Rossa Italiano comitato di Novara
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
Lucca (LU)
  

Colonia marina "Italo Balbo"

 

other name:

Colonia marina "Giuseppe Barellai"

 
address:Cinquale (LU),
via Giulio Mazzini
client: 
architect: 
year: 
capacity: 350
state:

1944 demolished
  

Colonia marina "Roberto Farinacci"

 

other name:

 
address:Vittoria Apuana (LU),
via Giulio Cesare /
via Francesco Ferrucci
client: 
architect: ing. Carlo Gaudenzi
year:1935
capacity:  
state:

1944 demolished
  

Colonia marina "Bel Caffaro" (Olga Morselli)

 

other name:

  
address:Vittoria Apuana (LU),
via Giuseppe Mazzini /
via Giulio Cesare
client:Fondazione Societą elettrica e elettrochimica del Caffaro
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

1944 demolished
  

Colonia marina di Seravezza

 

other name:

  
address:Vittoria Apuana (LU),
via Giuseppe Mazzini
client:E.O.A. - Ente Opere Assistenziali
architect:  
year:1924
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina Italcementi S.A.

 

other name:

 
address:Vittoria Apuana (LU),
viale Italico
client:Italcementi S. A., Bergamo
architect:  
year:1938-39
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina permanente "Principessa Maria di Piemonte"

 

other name:

 
address:Forte dei Marmi (LU),
via Italico / via Mazzini
client:Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca
architect: V. Paolinelli
year:1927-33
capacity:  
state:

1944 demolished
  

Colonia marina "ILVA"

 

other name:

 
address:Forte dei Marmi (LU),
via Mazzini
client:ILVA, Genua
architect: ing. Mantelli,
ing. Cardella, Genua
year:1935
capacity:  
state:

1944 demolished
Pisa (PI) 
  

Colonia marina "Fiorentina"

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Pisa (PI),
via Milazzo
client: 
architect: 
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina dei Ferrovieri

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Pisa (PI),
via B. Puccini
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina comunale

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Pisa (PI),
via Litoranea
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "Costanzo Ciano"

 

other name:

Colonia Vigili del Fuoco "Ospizio Marino",
Colonia marina "Santa Barbara"

 
address:Calambrone (PI),
viale del Tirrenio
client:Vigili del Fuoco
architect: Gregorio Birelli,
Dagoberto Ortensi
year:1939
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "Vittorio Emanuele III"

 

other name:

 
address:Tirrenia (PI),
viale del Tirrenio
client:Consorzio Antitubercolare di Pisa
architect: Gino Steffanon
year:1934-38
capacity:  
state:

refurbished and rebuilt, appartments
  

Colonia marina Firenze

 

other name:

 
address:Calambrone (PI),
viale del Tirrenio
client:Federazione dei Fasci di Combattimento di Firenze
architect: arch. Vannozzi,
Ugo Giovanozzi
year:1931-32
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "Principi di Piemonte"

 

other name:

Colonia marina Santa Maria

 
address:Tirrenia (PI),
viale del Tirrenio
client:Cassa die Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia
architect: Paolo Baldi Papini
year:1932-33
capacity:  
state:

refurbished, senior citizens' residence
  

Colonia marina "Regina Elena"

 

other name:

 
address:Tirrenia (PI),
viale del Tirrenio
client:RR Ospedali Riuniti di Livorno, O.P.A.F.S. - Opera di Previdenza delle Ferrovie dello Stato
architect: Ghino Venturi
year:1934
capacity:  
state:

refurbished, appartments
  

Colonia marina "Rosa Maltoni Mussolini"

 

other name:

Colonia Villa Rosa,
Colonia marina dei Ferrovieri,
Colonia marina Postelegrafonici,
Colonia Pontificia Fiorentina,
Colonia O.D.A. "Regina del Mare"

 
address:Tirrenia (PI),
viale del Tirreno
client:Opera di Previdenza Ferrovie dello Stato;
Opera di Previdenza Postelegrafonici;
Opera Diocesane di Assistenza
architect: Angiolo Mazzoni
year:1931-33
capacity: 1500
state:

partly refurbished, appartments,
partly abandoned

  

Colonia marina femminile dei Fasci Italiani all'estero

 

other name:

 
address:Tirrenia (PI),
viale Litoraneo
client:Direzione Generale degli Italiani all'Estero
architect: Mario Paniconi,
Giulio Pediconi
year:1934/35,
1937 extension
capacity:
900
state:

refurbished, appartments
Livorno (LI)
  

Colonia marina "Albert Lodolo"

 

other name:

Soggiorno Marino Olivetti

10 more pictures,
2plan, and
further information
address:Marina di Castagneto (LI),
viale Italia
client:Societą elettriche del Nord,
Olivetti, Ivrea
architect:Raffaello Brizzi
year:1931
capacity:  
state:

hotel "Tombolo"
Grosseto (GR)
  

Colonia marina fascista "Luigi Pierazzi"

 

other name:

Colonia C.R.I.

5 more pictures,
1 plan, and
further information
address:Follonica (GR),
via delle Repubblica
client:Federazione Provinciale Fascista di Grosseto
C.R.I. - Croce Rosso Italiana
architect:Ernesto Granelli
year:18 June 1930
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "San Rocco"

 

other name:

 
address:Marina di Grosseto (GR),
via delle Colonie
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  Latium
  Viterbo (VT) 
   Colonia marina
 

other name:

 
address:Tarquinia (VT),
Lungomare dei Tirreni
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity: 
state:

 
Roma (RO) 
  

Colonia marina "Principi di Piemonte"

 

other name:

Colonia marina "Santo Spirito"

9 more pictures,
1 graphic,
6 photos, and
further information
address:Santa Severa (RO),
via Aurelia
client:P.N.F. - Partito Nazionale di Fascista Dopolavoro
Ospedalieri (Ospedali dei Pio Istituto di S. Spirito ed Ospedali Riuniti di Roma)
architect:Luigi Lenzi,
Gaspare Lenzi
year:1933
capacity: 120
state:

abandoned
  

Colonia marina "Vittorio Emanuele III"

 

other name:

 
address:Lido di Ostia (RO),
lungomare Paolo Toscanelli
client: 
architect: Vincenzo Fasolo
year:1931
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "XXVIII Ottobre" della Federazione dell'Urbe (design concept)

 

other name:

-

 
address:Lido di Ostia (RO)
client: 
architect: Francesco Fariello,
Enrico Lenti,
Saverio Muratori,
Franco Petrucci
year:1931
capacity:  
state:

-
  

Colonia marina (design concept)

 

other name:

-

 
address:Castelfusano (RO)
client: 
architect: Mario Ridolfi
year:1931
capacity:  
state:

-
Latina (LT) 
  

Colonia marina permanente "Bastianelli"

 

other name:

  
address:Terracina (LT),
lungomare Circe
client: 
architect: 
year:1930
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia "Alessandro Italico Mussolini" - Frosinone

 

other name:

Colonia marina della gioventł fascista di Serapo

 
address:Gaeta a mare (LT),
spiaggia di Serapo
client:G.I.L. - Gioventù Italiana del Littorio di Serapo?
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  

Colonia climatico balneare "Regina Elena"

 

other name:

 
address:Formia (LT), ?
client: 
architect: Giulio Minoletti
year:1939
capacity: 260
state:

demolished
  

Colonia marina "Costanzo Ciano"

 

other name:

Colonia marina scolastica "Pietro Fedele"

 
address:Minturno - Scauri (LT),
via lungomare /
via dell'Impero
client: 
architect:  
year:19 April 1925
capacity:  
state:

demolished
  Campania
  Neapel (NA) 
   Colonia marina
 

other name:

 
address:Neapel (NA),
via Coroglio
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity: 
state:

 
  

Colonia marina "Arnaldo Mussolini "

 

other name:

 
address:Torre Annunziata (NA), ?
client: 
architect:  
year:1933
capacity:  
state:

 
Salerno (SA) 
  

Colonia marina "Stella maris"

 

other name:

 
address:Maiori (SA),
corso Regina
client: 
architect: 
year: 
capacity:  
state:

tourist agency (Aziende di Soggiorno e Turismo)
  

Colonia marina "Principi di Piemonte"

 

other name:

 
address:Salerno (SA),
via Leucosia
client: 
architect: Flavio Cermola,
Alfonso Parilli
year:1933
capacity:  
state:

refurbished, hospital
  

Colonia marina "Mussolini"

 

other name:

 
address:Salerno (SA), ?
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
  Basilicata
  Potenza (PZ)
   Colonia marina (design concept)
 

other name:

-

 
address:Maratea (PZ)
client:Federazione Fascista locale
architect: Raffaele Tarantini
year:1928
capacity: 
state:

-
  Calabria
  Cosenza (CS) 
   Colonia di San Benedetto
 

other name:

 
address:Cetraro (CS),
via Sr Crocifissa Militerni 1
client: 
architect:  
year: 
capacity: 
state:

refurbished, appartments
Vibo Valentina (VV) 
  

Colonia marina Preventorio

 

other name:

 
address:Tropea (VV),
via Giuseppe Melograni
client: 
architect: 
year: 
capacity:  
state:

 
 
 
   
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