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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 ...
The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in Venice (1887) In December 1878 a committee was set up in Venice to commemorate King Vittorio Emanuele II, who had recently passed away. Following a competition, the announcement of which was published in September of the following year, and in which many artists participated (for a total of 48 sketches ...
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 ...
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The body was buried on November 4, 1921, at the Altare della Patria in Rome under the statue of the goddess Roma with a solemn ceremony, at which King Victor Emmanuel III was present as well as many veterans and war widows. [1]