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The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (Italian: Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as the Vittoriano or Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland"), is a large national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honour Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, in Rome, Italy. [2]
Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, first king of united Italy, to whom the Vittoriano is dedicated. After the death of Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy on January 9, 1878, there were many initiatives intended to erect a permanent monument celebrating the first king of united Italy, that is, to the one who brought to fruition the process of Italian unification and liberation from foreign domination, so ...
Glimpse of the artistic and architectural works of the Vittoriano. The architectural and artistic works of the Vittoriano, an Italian national monument located in Rome on the northern slope of the Capitoline Hill, represent, through allegories and personifications, the virtues and sentiments that motivated Italians during the Risorgimento, the period during which Italy achieved its national ...
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 224 vigil: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Veterans Park, behind the Neville Public Museum, downtown Green Bay. United Patriotic Society Veterans Day ceremony : 10 a.m ...
Veterans can enjoy free meals and more in celebration of the holiday.
The other ten bodies remaining in Aquileia were buried in the military cemetery. [ 1 ] The chosen body made a journey from Aquileia to Rome by train, passing through Udine , Treviso , Venice , Padua , Rovigo , Ferrara , Bologna , Pistoia , Prato , Florence , Arezzo , Chiusi and Orvieto , at a moderate speed, in each station the population could ...
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