Piazza Venezia

Piazza Venezia is a huge and bustling square and the center of the main traffic arteries of the city. It’s framed by the Palazzo Venezia and Palazzo Santa Marco and the overwhelming monument to Victor Emanuel II, popularly called the Vittoriano. This multitiered memorial to Italy’s first king (inaugurated in 1911) houses a museum of the Risorgimento (Italian unification movement) and cradles the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Because of its glaring white, neoclassical facade, detractors have likened it to a wedding cake or a "confectioner’s typewriter." Barb & I can't take credit for this writing either, but the pic is ours.