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Background: Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI established a Fascist dictatorship. His disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany led to Italy's defeat in World War II. A democratic republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 and economic revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC). It has been at the forefront of European economic and political unification, joining the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include illegal immigration, organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, sluggish economic growth, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the prosperous north.




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Rome in a day?
3 days ago: AbigailinCambridge published a blog
Rome in a day?
November 4th 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Today we walked a LOT. Our tour guide Massimo met us at our hotel at 9am. He was very well informed and helped us to cover a lot of ground. However, he didn’t score big points for personality ... 75 photos [full story]

Rim
5 days ago: Barancek published a blog
Rim
November 1st 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Tento album je z fotiek z mojej nedavnej navstevy Rima - vecneho mesta.Okrem antickych pamiatok a obrovskych katedral je Rim typicky aj velkym neporiadkom a chaosom.Vacsi neporiadok som v ziadnom inom ... 59 photos [full story]

Vatikan
5 days ago: Barancek published a blog
Vatikan
October 31st 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Povinnou jazdou pri pobyte v Rime je nasteva Vatikanu - najmensieho statu na svete.Vatikanske muzea obsahuju obrovsku zbierku umeleckych predmetov s roznych obdobi - antickeho Rima, starovekeho Egypta ... 45 photos [full story]

Rome 19-22 feb 2009
6 days ago: Melissa van Gestel published a blog
Rome 19-22 feb 2009
February 22nd 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Hey, Rome was a beautifill trip together with some (ex)colleages of Lux (Nijmegen). Together with Ilona, Sanne and Sam we felt we had been walking in a open air museum for all the days we have spen ... 47 photos [full story]

Roaming in Rome
8 days ago: shirleyvalentino published a blog
Roaming in Rome
September 20th 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
The next part of this story,.... Rome is just such a history buff paradise. Pompei was wonderful, a compact history lesson on life as at 79 AD, but by being in Rome and checking out all the othe ... 4 photos [full story]

12 days ago: LSL09 published a blog
All roads lead to Roma
October 26th 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
From Shell: Last night as a threesome in Rome. Marja booked us a fantastic apartment for the last 4 days - we each have our own bedroom and we all keep marveling at how you need to shout to be hear ... [full story]

Rome
15 days ago: cool breeze published a blog
Rome
October 23rd 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Travel Date: May 2009 I had made up my mind to travel to Europe a year before the trip. But at that time neither did I have any monies nor did I have any leaves (new job). So my target was to g ... 8 photos [full story]

Day two of Rome on the BBA and Gretchen
October 18th 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Sunday 18th October Day two of Rome on the BBA and Gretchen’s 8(which turned into 10) stop tour. We are as warm as toast inside our mobile home with the heat pump churned up to 25C all night. ... 9 photos [full story]

Rome on the BBA
18 days ago: Whiskers published a blog
Rome on the BBA
October 17th 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Saturday 17th October Rome on the BBA We think the days of shorts and tee shirts on this BBA might be over. The weather in Rome has turned decidedly cooler and we had better go to the city today pr ... 10 photos [full story]

North along the western coast to Rome
19 days ago: Whiskers published a blog
North along the western coast to Rome
October 16th 2009  Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Friday 16th October North along the western coast to Rome. Time has come to move on again and the day has dawned sunny and clear a radical change from yesterday’s grey and rather bleak sky. W ... 4 photos [full story]


Rome Blog Entries

Throne of St. Peter
The Colloseum 2
The Colloseum
View from Musei Capitolini
Sistine Chapel wall
Sistine Chapel
Hannah peers over Florence
Clemente Mastella
Beppe Grillo
Blues Brothers quote: "Can you seeee the light?!"
Pope Benedict
Heavens Opening over Saint Peter's Basilica
Caesar Augustus
The Facade of the Roman Senate Building
Saint Peter's Square
The Pieta

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