Altare della Patria
A vast white monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of united Italy, built between 1885 and 1935 to a design by Giuseppe Sacconi. It rises in tiers of columns and statues above Piazza Venezia, and Romans have long given it nicknames like the wedding cake and the typewriter.
- Where
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 41.8947, 12.4831
Get the Altare della Patria stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Altare della Patria. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Lazio volume with your photos and a note.
Near Altare della Patria
Capitoline Museums 0.2 km
Rome's own civic museums, set in two palaces that face each other across Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill. Among the ancient pieces inside are the bronze she-wolf and the original equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.
Trajan's Market 0.3 km
A large brick complex built as part of Trajan's Forum and set into the cut-away flank of the Quirinal Hill. Its curving halls, arcades and upper streets give a rare sense of what a working ancient Roman building felt like, and it now houses the Museum of the Imperial Forums.
Roman Forum 0.3 km
A long rectangle of columns, arches and temple footings that was once the centre of public life in ancient Rome. It began as a marketplace and grew into the place where Romans voted, traded, heard speeches and held triumphs, with the Palatine on one side and the Capitoline on the other.
Largo di Torre Argentina 0.5 km
A sunken square in the middle of modern traffic, holding four temples from the Roman Republic and part of the remains of Pompey's Theatre. It lies in the ancient Campus Martius, and a colony of cats now lives among the columns.
Pantheon 0.7 km
A Roman temple first built under Augustus and rebuilt by Hadrian, now a church and still in use almost two thousand years on. Its unreinforced concrete dome, open to the sky through a single round oculus, lets in a moving disc of sunlight and the occasional shower of rain.
Trevi Fountain 0.7 km
The largest Baroque fountain in the world, 26 metres high and nearly 50 wide, designed by Nicola Salvi and finished in 1762. Ocean rides a shell chariot out of the palace wall above the basin, and tradition says a coin tossed over your shoulder means you will return to Rome.
Palatine Hill 0.8 km
The centremost of Rome's seven hills and one of the oldest inhabited parts of the city, where emperors later built their palaces. Today it is an open-air museum of ruins and pine trees, looking down on the Forum on one side and the Circus Maximus on the other.
Arch of Constantine 0.8 km
The largest Roman triumphal arch, 21 metres high, raised by the Senate and dedicated in AD 315 to mark Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge. It stands between the Colosseum and the Palatine on the old triumphal route, and much of its carving was taken from earlier imperial monuments.
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Questions
Where is Altare della Patria?
Altare della Patria is in Rome, Lazio, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Capitoline Museums (0.2 km), Trajan's Market (0.3 km), Roman Forum (0.3 km).
How do I get the Altare della Patria stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Altare della Patria and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Lazio volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Altare della Patria before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Lazio volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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