Travelling to See the Buildings

The more or less active and consensual support accorded to fascism by the Italian population in the late 1920s was consolidated, albeit in varying ways, over the course of the 1930s. Investments in public works, and the resulting massive rise in employment, represented a key aspect in a broader political strategy to move towards the people. Mussolini travelled extensively throughout Italy, thus directly participating in the celebration of the government’s involvement in public works, and reaping the rewards of its wide-ranging and multifaceted activity. These journeys became a tool by means of which to consolidate popular support for the regime,