Monument to Victor Emmanuel II
The Thought
il Pensiero (Thought) by Giulio Monteverde
Rome Italy
2016


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.