Brescia, Italy Published August 22, 2013 at 1024 × 576 in Tea with Mussolini Piazza della Vittoria Marcello Piacentini designed an enormous urban ensemble which was begun in 1927 and finalized in 1932. It not only eradicated a good portion of Brescia’s medieval center, but also reflected the ideologies Italy’s Fascist government at the time.