Mussolini's Typewriter

Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II - Piazza Venezia





Some constant seriously scary traffic chaos.


"The monument was designed and built by Giuseppe Sacconi between 1895 and 1911 to honour Victor Emmanuel, the first king of unified Italy. The monument is controversial. Its construction destroyed a large area of Capitoline Hill housing a Medieval neighbourhood. The building itself is often regarded as pompous and too large. It is clearly visible to most of the city of Rome despite being boxy in general shape and lacking a dome or a tower. The monument is also glaringly white, making it highly conspicuous amidst the generally brownish buildings surrounding it, and its stacked, crowded nature has lended it several derogatory nicknames, among them 'the wedding cake' and 'Mussolini's Typewriter.'


Since 1916 it has been owned by the state, and is famous for when Mussolini ruled and made his speeches from the balcony in the middle."


[Via Wikipedia]