Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
Rome Italy
2016

https://www.walksinrome.com/blog/equestrian-statue-of-vittorio-emanuele-ii-the-largest-statue-in-rome

The centrepiece is a huge bronze statue of the king on horseback, which stands 12 metres (40 feet) high, making it the largest statue in the city. Cast in over a dozen pieces, the equestrian statue was begun by Enrico Chiaradia (1851-1901) and completed by Emilio Gallori (1846-1924). Before all of the pieces were assembled a group of dignitaries toasted the creation of the statue in, of all places, the horse's belly.


The goddess Victoria riding on a quadriga, 1908 by Carlo Fontana and Paolo Bartolini, equestrian statue at the top of the Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II (Monument to Victor Emmanuel II).

Two bronze quadrigae (four-horse chariots), each of which is driven by a winged victory, crown the monument. The quadriga on the right, the work of Carlo Fontana, symbolises the freedom of the citizens (CIVIVM LIBERTATI), while the one on the left, the work of Paolo Bartolini, symbolises the unity of the fatherland (PATRIAE VNITATI), as the two inscriptions proclaim.

Grand marble neoclassical temple honoring Italy's first king & First World War soldiers.

The Piazza Venezia square has the white and colossal monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, also known as the Altara della Patria (altar of the fatherland), the typewriter and the Wedding Cake building of Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_Monument

The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument, also known as 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. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill. The monument was realized by Giuseppe Sacconi.

From an architectural perspective, it was conceived as a modern forum, an agora on three levels connected by stairways and dominated by a portico characterized by a colonnade. The complex process of national unity and liberation from foreign domination carried out by King Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, to whom the monument is dedicated, has a great symbolic and representative value, being architecturally and artistically centred on the Italian unification—for this reason the Vittoriano is considered one of the national symbols of Italy.