Una rocca consona ai tempi e agli uomini mutati. La Rocca delle Caminate, nuovo Castello del Duce. Luigi Corsini 1924-27

In 1923 a Regional fascist Committee decided to offer the Rocca of Caminate to a rising Benito Mussolini. The ancient ruins of the fortress have to be revived as the Dux’s castle, giving life to a new symbol of the leader’s great origins. Being an eminent chief involved coming from a land of strength and honour. The superintendent Luigi Corsini, charged with all the phases of the restoration (survey, design, supervision), achieved an interesting and complex project, thanks to his education, to the historical setting and to his contemporary cultural debate. The project proceeded from both the philological and stylistic restoration theories, and reached a brought back image of a medieval crenellated fortress. Works started on September 1924 and Corsini decided to complete the ruins of the surrounding walls and the still standing portion of the central tower with Guelph battlements, while a new summer residence was rebuilt, rising from the castellan’s house foundations. At the end a lighthouse was placed on the top of the central tower: its light was celebrated everywhere as a sign of the Mussolini’s power, spread on his homeland.