{"id":41404,"date":"2018-10-19T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/romagna-liberty-art-architectures-italy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:02:25","slug":"liberty-romagna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelemiliaromagna.it\/en\/liberty-romagna\/","title":{"rendered":"Romagna Liberty, between History and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweet sinuous lines, stylization of the natural elements and rejection of the serial production of mass objects.<\/p>\n

Here is a brief description of the fundamental characteristics of the Italian Art Nouveau style<\/a>, an artistic movement that was established between the end of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century and which influenced the visual arts, architecture and applied arts.<\/p>\n

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A bit of history<\/h3>\n
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Rimini, The Grand Hotel project in Liberty Style – Ph. Romagna Liberty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The artistic style of Italian Liberty<\/strong> or Stile Floreale<\/em> (as it is also called in Italian) thrived between the 19th and 20th century. At that time, European states had recently taken the form we know today and the industry thrived among the new and powerful mercantile classes. While the Great War was still far away, masses of peasants flowed into large urban centers to become workers in the big industry and, for the first time in human history, a never-before-seen number of people access mass consumer goods<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That’s when the Liberty style was born in Italy, as an emanation of Art Nouveau<\/a> of France and Belgium. Soon every country in Europe developed its own precise styles such as Gaud\u00ec’s Modernism in Spain and Catalonia, or the Jugendstil of Germany and Austria.<\/p>\n

It is the era of elegant ladies with delicate white umbrellas, men walking around with a cylinder and a stick, boulevards and public gardens, and ballooning that hides a boundless trust in human progress. An era that historians have called Belle \u00c9poque<\/a> (at least for the wealthier classes) in which writers dreamt of journeys and distant worlds in space and time.<\/p>\n

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Rimini, Hotel Lido – Ph. Romagna Liberty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is unquestionable that the bourgeoisie<\/strong> in bigger cities contributed to increasing the volume of businesses, and new techniques allowed the mass production of goods and services to be sold to the whole society. This is the era of great industrial empires,<\/strong> such as that of Henry Ford and his auto assembly line.<\/p>\n

Wealthier classes now feel new desires and appetites. For instance, they start embellishing the cities<\/strong> with large avenues and public gardens where people can temporarily escape the pollution and ugliness of the most popular neighborhoods. Cities become the stage for Sunday walks, and for the first time people have free time: it’s the dawn of the era of leisure<\/a><\/strong>, a forerunner of today’s tourism.<\/p>\n

Of course, time is a privilege for those who can afford it, the upper-class made by big traders, industries owners and the great mercantile bourgeoisie. It is therefore not surprising that the Italian Art Nouveau style flourished in such places like spas, cafes, villas, resorts and big hotels<\/strong>. this, in short, are the placs of Romagna Liberty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A special mention goes to the Romagna Coast<\/strong>, one of the first Italian holiday destinations for Italy’s upper classes.<\/p>\n

After the cold and humid winter, these went to the beach for some healthy air<\/strong>; that’s why spas become more and more popular, as places to recover from the long and cold winter months. The first “tourism movement” appears as an activity dedicated to the healthcare of the upper classes, who bring with them fashions, costumes, and European styles. Liberty style starts to populate the panorama of Italian holiday resorts.<\/p>\n

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Romagna Liberty<\/h3>\n