From this place Vittorio Emanuele III witnessed the start of the Vittorio Veneto Battle between the Italian and the Austro-Hungarian Army which took place in October 1918 and led to the Armistice on November 4^th. To celebrate this event, in 1932 an ancient Roman Column was placed on its lawn, to establish an ideal bond between this place and the Rome of the Caesars, of which Fascism proclaimed itself to be its heir.