Rome - December 28, 2011 - Vittorio Emanuelle II Monument

Vittorio Emanuelle II

Vittorio Emanuele II- Big. What can I say? It’s big. My Mother (and many Americans of her generation who had visited Rome referred to it as the Wedding cake). Yes, big…and white…very…very white. Completed in 1922 it drips with ornament, winged victories, personifications of glory, fame and other such trophies of the typical megalomaniac. The entire thing just screams “eat me! I’m sugary and delicious!”

Close up it just overwhelms to the point where one just feels numb. This was the first time I have ever been inside and gone all the way up to the top.

Inside the Vittorio Emanuele Monument