memorial columns
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Column of Phocas
Rome, Italy
This monumental column in the Roman Forum was erected in 608 but reuses a 2nd-century Corinthian column and capital.
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Monument
England
1671
The Monument was erected in the 1670s to commemorate the devastation wrought by the Great Fire of London in 1666. It can be climbed for fine views of London.
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Alexander Column
St. Petersburg, Russia
The world's largest freestanding monument, the Alexander Column was erected in front of the Winter Palace in 1834 in honor of Tsar Alexander I.
