The marble colossus erected in honor of Victor Emmanuel II in Rome
Hello travelers
And in today's post we will stay in Rome and more precisely in Piazza Venezia where we will visit an impressive monument, in my last post here in the community I presented the Basilica Santa Maria (if you want to see this blog you can see it here), look, just a few steps away from it is this impressive monument made of white marble.
It was already quite late when we finished visiting the basilica, but even so, before going to the hotel, we passed by this monument to make an impression in case we come back here the next day.
I want to clarify a situation that I haven't written about here before, namely, we are not that early in the morning when it comes to visiting places (there are some exceptions) and more so we don't walk around after dark (and here are isolated cases when we are caught at night), why do we do this, simply for our safety, I have spent my days many times in many shady places in many cities of the world and what I have seen during the day on the streets I have honestly made the decision not to walk the streets at night.
Have you experienced strange situations at night on city streets?
As I wrote above I was impressed by the monumental so the next day we went back to this place, it wasn't very difficult to get here, the only impediment was the construction sites here, it seems that the modernization of the area is taking place.
This place you can visit daily between 9:30-19:30, and to go up you can use a panoramic elevator that costs 7euro/person, we walked up all those stairs to enjoy every corner.
I have read some information about this monument and that made me even more curious to explore it myself, I will leave you some of the information and of course the sources where I found information about the monument.
I'm not much of a storyteller, so I'll leave you with some interesting facts below.
Known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, the giant white marble structure dominating Piazza Venezia was built in honor of the first king of united Italy, Victor Emmanuel II.
Who was Victor Emmanuel II
As King of Sardinia and victorious in the battle of Lombardy against the Austrian army, Victor Emmanuel II became a symbol of the Risorgimento, the movement for a unified Italy. After his army joined forces with Garibaldi and defeated the papal army, the Kingdom of Italy proclaimed its independence in 1861, proclaiming Victor Emmanuel as king.
In 1885 the construction of the monument was started after a project by Giuseppe Sacconi, who won a competition organized for this purpose. The northern slope of Capitolin Hill was modified to make room for the monument. Roman ruins and medieval churches were destroyed during the works. Sacconi died in 1905 and never saw his monument completed. His place was taken by three other architects: Manfredo Manfredi, Gaetano Koch and Pio Piacentini. The new monument and national symbol of Italy was inaugurated in 1911 on the 50th anniversary of the kingdom's existence.
The Vittorio Emanuele II Monument, also known as Il Vittoriano and referred to by some as the Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland), is an impressive monument built in white marble from Botticino, in the province of Brescia. It is decorated with numerous allegorical statues and bas-reliefs by artists from all over the country.
The monument, 80 meters high and 120 meters wide, is composed of a large number of stairs leading to a massive colonnade. On either side of the main entrance, which is closed at night, are two fountains, allegorical representations of the two seas that surround Italy. The one on the left represents the Adriatic Sea and the one on the right represents the Tyrrhenian Sea.
At the center of the monument is the colossal equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel, the father of the Italian nation. The statue is by Enrico Chiaradia, weighs 50 tons and measures 12 meters long. The statue stands on a pedestal decorated with allegorical bas-reliefs representing some of Italy's cities. At the base of the statue is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which was inaugurated in 1921. An honor guard, selected by rotation from the navy, infantry and air force, guards the tomb at all times.
You can see that this place is very visited, an advantage here can be that if you don't use the panoramic elevator you can visit this place for free.
Here's a picture of that panoramic elevator.
Let me show you what I could visit for free and inside.
I hope that my blog today and the information you found here will encourage you to visit this place if you visit Rome, Italy.
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