The Panzano district, linked to the construction of the Monfalcone Shipyard, represents one of the most significant cases of town-planning intervention in the area to create a new modern city, assuming the organisational canons of the garden city and providing for the construction of buildings intended for residential use and a series of collective services such as a theatre, shops and sports facilities. Construction, by Dante Fornasir, was concentrated mainly in 1920-27. The district came to be of imposing dimensions: over 750 dwellings located in buildings of several types: from 8-apartment block houses to twin houses, from terraced houses to villas for executives, as well as two large hotels for workers and employees. In recent years, the Panzano district has undergone extensive renovation and redevelopment and is one of Italy’s most essential and exciting examples of industrial archaeology.
