Altare della Patria

Also known as Altar of the Fatherland, Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, Il Vittoriano, Victor Emmanuel II Monument, Victor Emmanuel Monument

monument built in honour of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Key facts

Alternative names: "Mole del Vittoriano", "Il Vittoriano", "Altare della Patria"
Type: National monument
Architectural style: Neoclassical with eclectic influences
Location: Rome , Italy, Piazza Venezia
Inaugurated: 4 June 1911
Owner: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities
Height: 81 m (266 ft)
Other dimensions: 135 m (443 ft) across x 130 m (427 ft) deep
Floor area: 717,000 m (7,717,724 sq ft)
Grounds: 1.755 ha (4.34 acres)
Architect: Giuseppe Sacconi

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The Victor Emmanuel II National Monument (Italian: Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II), also known as the Vittoriano or for synecdoche 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 unification of Italy—for this reason the Vittoriano is considered one of the national symbols of Italy.