Piazza Venezia

Rome was the first capital to be liberated from Nazi German occupation on June, 4 1994 by Allied forces, specifically the U.S. Fifth Army. View of Piazza Venezia, the Vittoriano and the Altar of the Fatherland — the stage for Mussolini’s wartime speeches and the allied liberation. During the final stages of World War 2, the basement of the Vittoriano also became an air raid shelter.