13-NOV-2010
The Monument - known variously....
...as the wedding cake, the typewriter, Altare della Patria
(the Altar of the Motherland) and also "Il Vittoriano" -
after the completion of its restoration, prior to the
country's 150th Birthday celebrations!
Enter the exhibition areas through the small door shown..
18-NOV-2007
Piazza Venezia
Musically-themed flowerbed, in front of the Vittoriano monument
18-NOV-2007
The view over Piazza Venezia, from the Vittoriano steps
During 'works' prior to the extension of Rome's Metro system
18-NOV-2007
Further round... Trajan's Column...
... and part of "his" Forum
18-NOV-2007
Staring at the sky
Vertical closeup of the Vittoriano monument - Rome
18-NOV-2007
In restauro - November 2007
Vittoriano monument: everything open as usual - the various galleries,
restaurants and, at the rear, new glass lifts up to the terrace at the
very top - while the main frontage was undergoing a thorough clean!
13-NOV-2009
The glass lift...
... to the topmost terrace - soon after installation
18-NOV-2007
General Garibaldi, and some of the 1000
Not just a biscuit designer...
Disillusioned with what had happened after he liberated southern
Italy from its foreign monarchy, in 1861 - on the outbreak of the
American Civil War - Garibaldi volunteered his services to President
Abraham Lincoln, and was offered a commission as a Major General in
the northern army.
Better perhaps that he'd accepted: but instead he returned to Sicily,
and raised a new force to march on Rome, then still under the
control of the Pope as capital of the Papal States.
18-NOV-2007
Garibaldi's red shirt, with medals
