The Arch of the Philaeni, also nicknamed the Marble Arch, was a triumphal arch built in 1937 by Fascist Italy in colonial Libya. Located on the border between the previously-separate colonies of Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, the arch was built to celebrate their unification into a single colony; it also celebrated the completion of the Litoranea, the first road connecting the east and west of Libya, which passed underneath the arch at the middle of its length.
The Arch of the Philaeni, also nicknamed the Marble Arch, was a triumphal arch built in 1937 by Fascist Italy in colonial Libya. Located on the border between the previously-separate colonies of Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, the arch was built to celebrate their unification into a single colony; it also celebrated the completion of the Litoranea, the first road connecting the east and west of Libya, which passed underneath the arch at the middle of its length.
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