Piazza Venezia

This guide to Piazza Venezia in Rome centers on the balcony of the Renaissance palazzo that gave the square its name, where Benito Mussolini kept a light burning through the night after making the building his headquarters in 1929. It follows the balcony's role as a stage for his most consequential speeches, including declarations of war in 1940 and 1941, and turns to the Vittoriano, the marble monument at the square's far end honoring Italy's first king.