By now we had been on our feet for probably 5 hours, but we were just beginning. On to the Colosseum. Enroute, we came upon the Corso Victor Emmanuel, one of two main drags. We turned left and hit the jackpot. The Huge Piazza Venenzia, bordered on the south by a very huge well lit monument that resembled a building we might see in DC. As I said, Rome does not exhaust itself by putting signs up to notify tourists which building is which. We sat, exhausted, on the front steps and asked a fellow traveler the name of this building. He had no clue. A few days later a guide told us this is "the Wedding Cake". This is a huge building dedicated to the King who reigned when Italy became a unified nation in the latter part of the 19th century. This Monument is dedicated to Victoria Emmanule II.
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