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Towering in dazzling white marble at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, the Vittoriano, known officially as the Altare della Patria or Altar of the Fatherland, dominates the open space of Piazza Venezia. The monument was begun in 1885 and inaugurated in 1911 to mark the first king of a united Italy, Victor Emmanuel II, and the unification of the country fifty years earlier. Designed by Giuseppe Sacconi after a competition won in the early 1880s, the building was meant to symbolise the new...