During the 1930s the fascist regime demolished a large section of the Cittavecchia with the aim of bringing to the fore the Roman face of the city – the theatre dating to the 1st century CE. – and to build the Casa del Fascio (Fascist Party Headquarters)- today the main police station, as well as to smooth the local traffic. With the demolition of the Jewish ghetto, among other things, the street of the via delle Scuole Israelitiche, a street where two synagogues stood, and the birthplace of Umberto Saba, were lost. The inhabitants of the houses, built from the Middle Ages on, above the area called the Rena Vecia (the Old Arena, in fact, to indicate the presence of the Roman theatre) were displaced to the suburbs where new neighbourhoods were constructed
