Friday, December 22, 2017

VICTOR EMMANUEL II SQUARE

PIAZZA VITTORIO EMANUELE II
Residential buildings with porches 1881/86 Gaetano Koch (1849/1910) and Giulio Podesti (1857/1909)
It is the largest square in Rome 316 x 174 m (1037 x 571 feet)
Built on the site of the destroyed Villa Palombara
Group of sculptures in concrete “Glauco” 1900 by Mario Rutelli (1859/1943) first version of the Fountain of the Naiads in Piazza della Repubblica
In the center of the square there are the ruins of a huge fountain of the time of Alexander Severus (222/235) known as TROFEI DI MARIO (Mario's Trophies)
On the east side of the square were destroyed the remains of a circular mausoleum called CASA TONDA (Round House), maybe the Tomb of Maecenas, beside which the sources mention the Tomb of Horace

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