MONUMENT TO IVAN VAZOV

MONUMENTO A IVAN VAZOV

Piazzale Bertel Thorvaldsen

2010 by the Bulgarian sculptor Minekov Velichko (1928)

Ivan Vazov (1850/1921) was a writer and is still considered the "patriarch" of the Bulgarian literature. He strove valiantly for the national cause of Bulgaria

The statue was inaugurated in the presence of both Italian and Bulgarian Presidents of the Council of Ministers

ROMANIAN ACADEMY

ACCADEMIA DI ROMANIA

Piazzale De San Martìn José 1

1931/33 Petre Antonescu (1873/1965)

Home of the Academy of Romania, founded in 1922

It plays a mediating role between Romanian universities and other academic and scientific institutions in Rome and in Italy, organizing conferences, seminars and meetings with scholars. Library with about 33,200 books

In the garden "Colossal bronze head of Decebalus" the king of Dacia defeated by Trajan in 106 AD

He is a true Romanian national hero, so much so that on the banks of the Danube, near the town of Orşova, the largest sculpture made in the rock of a mountain in Europe with the face of Decebalus was completed in 2004: it is 40 m (131 feet) high and it took ten years to sculpt it with a cost of over a million dollars

BRITISH ACADEMY

ACCADEMIA BRITANNICA

Via Antonio Gramsci 61

1911/13 Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869/1944) one of the greatest British architects

Sole survivor of the exhibition hall of 1911

The British School in Rome (BSR) is a centre for research on the archeology, history, and culture of Italy, and for contemporary art and architecture

It serves the needs of scholars and fine artists from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The BSR is one of the research institutes sponsored by the British Academy, and is one of a group of international academies in Rome