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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 ...
The monument seen from Corso Vittorio. The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is a statuary monument atop a set of columns, honoring the first King of Italy, and located in Turin, in the Largo of the same name, at the junction between Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Corso Galileo Ferraris. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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Piazza Venezia, with Trajan's Column, as seen from the Victor Emmanuel II monument. One side of the Piazza is the site of Italy's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della Patria, part of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy. The piazza or square is at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and next to Trajan's Forum.
Equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, 12 m tall, [1] on the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill; Equestrian of Umberto I, at Villa Borghese; Equestrian of Giuseppe Garibaldi by Emilio Gallori at the Piazza Garibaldi, 1895.
The Monumento al Partigiano or Monument to the Partisan is a bronze monument places in Piazza Matteotti corner with Viale Papa Giovanni XXIII in the lower town of Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. The monument by Giacomo Manzù commemorates the deaths of partisans killed by fascist forces during the World War II.