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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]
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 ...
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 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]
Victor Emmanuel II monument. Giuseppe Sacconi (Montalto delle Marche, 5 July 1854 - 23 September 1905 [1]) was an Italian architect. He is best known as the designer of the monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, in the centre of Rome. Following the prestigious commission, he became one of the protagonists of the artistic culture of post-unification ...
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.