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Altare della Patria


Altare della Patria
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Copyright: Alex Fan Moniz (LondonBoy) Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 31 W: 0 N: 50] (303)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-02-23
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Minolta Dynax 40
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-02-27 2:58
Viewed: 526
Points: 4
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The Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument Victor Emmanuel II)

Is a monument to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy.

It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill, in Rome.
The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1895; sculpture for it was parceled out to established sculptors all over Italy, inaugurated in 1911 and finally completed in 1935.

The monument holds the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with an eternal flame, built under the statue of Italy after World War I.
The body of the unknown soldier was chosen from amongst 11 unknown remains by Maria Bergamas of Gradisca D' Isonzo whose only child was killed during World War I and whose body was never recovered.
The selected unknown was transferred from Aquileia, where the ceremony with Bergamas took place to Rome in late October to early November of 1921.

The monument was controversial, since its construction destroyed a large area of the Capitoline Hill with a Medieval neighbourhood for its sake.
Some people regard it as pompous and too large.
It is clearly visible to most of the city of Rome despite being boxy in general shape and lacking a dome or a tower.
The monument is also glaringly white, making it highly conspicuous amidst the generally brownish buildings surrounding it, and its stacked, crowded nature has lended it several derogatory nicknames.
Romans sometimes refer to the structure by a variety of irreverent slang expressions, such as "Zuppa Inglese", "the wedding cake", and "the false teeth", while Americans liberating Rome in 1944 labeled it "the typewriter", a nickname also adopted by the locals.
Despite all this criticism, the monument still attracts a large number of visitors.
The opening as a public forum and as a view point over the City core was strongly fostered by the former President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, letting people familiarise with the huge landmark, causing the "Vittoriano" to gain a new popular, yet not fully critical, reputation.
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Hi ALex. Really good compo, amazing light management, perfect sharpness. Thanks for sharing, Jalab

alex

marvelous this pov where position of the sculptures and columns is perfect. Beautiful colors and light. It is sad sharpness is poor and grainy

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jorge

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