The 1883 Urban Development Plan gave rise to the Boncompagni-Ludovisi villa, the district of the same name, destined after the Unification to house the representative buildings of the new Italian capital. The particular urban connotation of Via Veneto, opened to traffic in 1886, is due to the presence of residential buildings that combine the eclectic style with references to the Liberty style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (hotels: Excelsior by Otto Maraini 1905, Regina Carlton by Giulio Podesti 1892-94, Palace by Carlo Busiri Vici 1902-05) with the rationalist style of the public buildings constructed between the 1920s and 1960s. Via Boncompagni and the neighbouring streets were given over to the construction of small villas and luxury apartment blocks for the rising entrepreneurial middle class by the leading architects of the time, from Carlo Pincherle to Giulio Podesti and Ernesto Basile, who perfectly interpreted the taste of the new aristocratic class.