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Vittorio Emanuele II, First King of Italy (House of Savoy) . . . Where is he now?

IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
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Guess where he's buried . . . here's a hint from a trip I took last summer:

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,844 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dead and hopefully he made it to heaven and the photos do not look like the Hollywood Cemetary.

    Seriously... I don't know

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    I can't be sure, but he's probably in his tomb in the Pantheon in Rome, across from his son, Umberto.
  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975 ✭
    I can't be sure, but he's probably in his tomb in the Pantheon in Rome, across from his son, Umberto.

    Yes! Vittorio Emanuel II as well as his son Umberto I (but not his grandson, Vittorio Emanuel III, who condoned --collaborated with? -- Mussolini) is entombed in the Pantheon). So is Raphael the painter (pretty amazing!). The Pantheon was built circa 125 AD and has been used continually since its construction.
  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    How did the first king end up with a II? I know he had it originally, but I thought when a monarch moved on to a higher and grander domain he would restart as I.
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