Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, also known as Piazza Vittorio, is a piazza in Rome, Italy, in the Esquilino rione. It is served by the Vittorio Emanuele Metro station.Photo: Claude van der Grift, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Square
- Description: Biggest square in Rome (1889)
- Also known as: “Piazza Vittorio”, “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome”, and “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Secondo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Coliseum and Vittorio Emanuele.
Coliseum
Theater building
Photo: Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is the largest standing amphitheatre in the world. Coliseum is situated 1 km southwest of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
Vittorio Emanuele
Metro station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vittorio Emanuele is a station on Line A of the Rome Metro. The station was inaugurated in 1980 and is sited underground, beneath Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, which gives it its name, in the Esquilino rione.
Santa Maria Maggiore
Church
Photo: NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Maria Maggiore, also known as the Basilica of Saint Mary Major or the Basilica of Saint Mary the Great, is one of the four major papal basilicas and one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. Santa Maria Maggiore is situated 590 metres northwest of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Esquilino-San Giovanni and San Lorenzo.
Esquilino-San Giovanni
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
Esquilino and San Giovanni are adjacent neighborhoods in Rome. Esquilino is named for the Esquiline hill on which it stands. It lies south of the Termini station and is centred more or less on the Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele II.
San Lorenzo
Neighborhood
San Lorenzo is an urban zone in Rome, Italy. Administratively it was part of both Municipio II and Quarter VI Tiburtino. It occupies roughly the two sides of the early stretch of Via Tiburtina, starting from Termini railway station and ending at the Verano area.
Viminal Hill
Locality
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
- Category: locality
- Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.89462° or 41° 53′ 41″ northLongitude
12.50431° or 12° 30′ 16″ eastOpen location code
8FHJVGV3+RPOpenStreetMap ID
way 714425788OpenStreetMap feature
place=squareWikidata ID
Q1141165
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “维托里奥·埃马努埃莱二世广场”
- Dutch: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان فيتوريو ايمانويل التانى”
- French: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- French: “Piazza Vittorio”
- German: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Italian: “piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Italian: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Italian: “Piazza Vittorio”
- Japanese: “ヴィットーリオ・エマヌエーレ2世広場”
- Japanese: “ヴィットーリオ広場”
- Portuguese: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Russian: “Площадь Виктора Эммануила II”
- Spanish: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Turkish: “II. Vittorio Emanuele Meydanı”
- Turkish: “piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Turkish: “Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II”
- Turkish: “Vittorio Emanuele II Meydanı”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus and Giardini Di Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Ii.
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