Saturday, October 11, 2025

Sep23/19-Rome3: Vittoriano monument & Piazza Venezia

 Victor Emmanuel II Monument, also known as the Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland)

A monument, national shrine as well as a museum complex.








Piazza Venezia

Piazza Venezia was the location of public speeches given by the Italian dictator Mussolini to crowds of his supporters in the 1920s-1940s.

In 2009, during excavations in the middle of the square for the construction of the Rome C Metro Line (station Venezia), remains of the emperor Hadrian's Athenaeum were unearthed.

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