Behind the Capitol Hill, where join the main roads of Via del Corso and Via dei Fori Imperiali, there is Piazza Venezia, a wide open space rearranged to the actual shape in the XIX century. The square is delimited by Palace Venezia, Palace Bonaparte, Palace of Generali and it is overhanged by the imposing Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II.

This monument, also called the Vittoriano, was built in 1885 in neoclassical style by Giuseppe Sacconi, to honour the first king of Italian state Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy. The entrance is a large stairway, in whose middle there is the Tomba del Milite Ignoto (Tomb of Unknown Soldier) also called Altare della Patria (Country's Altar), where is buried an unkown soldier from the First World War, symbolizing the numerous soldiers dead in the Great War without a named tomb. Inside Vittoriano there is the Central Museum of Risorgimento.

Palace Venezia, which had become famous because from its balcony on the noble floor Mussolini made his speeches to the crowd, is indeed an important Renaissance palace, built by pope Paul II Farnese. Inside the palace there is a museum of Minor Arts from the Middle Ages, which exhibites works of enamel, inlay, jewelry; and a collection of bronze works and ceramics from Renaissance.