The Dome in St Peters

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January 27th 2007
Day 11 Saturday 27th January 2007 Very quiet morning on the bus and not many people fully appreciated the delightful smells of the visit to Fragonard Perfumes and Cosmetics. We were shown around the perfume laboratory and were amazed at the quantity of ingredients that were needed to make a small bottle of perfume, something like a tonne of rose petals are needed to make a 100ml bottle of rose ... read more

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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 establis... ... read more