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The Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II) or Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) or "Il Vittoriano"

is a monument to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of a unified Italy, located in Rome, Italy.

It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill.

It was inaugurated in 1911 and completed in 1935.

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