Padre della Patria

When you travel through Rome it is quite hard to miss Il Vittoriano, the monument honoring Victor Emmanuel II (Mar. 14, 1820 – Jan. 9, 1878) (Pictured above). Pictured below, the shear size and blinding white color of this monument draws almost all tourists to comment on the spectacle. Even though most modern Romans find the monument to be gaudy, years ago Italians gave him the epithet Father of the Fatherland - "Padre della Patria." Immanuel was the King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia from 1849 to 1861. In 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy and gloriously became the first king of a united Italy until he died in 1878. His tomb is located in Pantheon. He will not be forgotten all long as his monument shadows Rome.
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