Vittoriale degli italiani

Il Vittoriale degli Italiani
General information
Architectural style	Elements of Italian Fascist Architecture
Town or city	Gardone Riviera
Country	Italy
Construction started	1921
Completed	1938
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Giancarlo Maroni

The Vittoriale degli italiani (English translation: The shrine of victories of the Italians) is a hillside estate in the town of Gardone Riviera overlooking Lake Garda in province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is where the Italian poet and novelist Gabriele D'Annunzio lived after his defenestration in 1922 until his death in 1938. The estate consists of the residence of D'Annunzio called the Prioria (priory), an amphitheatre, the protected cruiser Puglia set into a hillside, a boathouse containing the MAS vessel used by D'Annunzio in 1918 and a circular mausoleum. Its grounds are now part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani.

References to the Vittoriale range from a "monumental citadel" to a "fascist lunapark",^[1] the site inevitably inheriting the controversy surrounding its creator.