Animals were held in cages inside these arches

Rome, Finally We Are Here

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June 20th 2021
Finally, after hours of messing around with airplane tickets and this and that, we were in Rome. We found our apartment and settled in. We walked to the Pantheon and back just to stretch our legs. We had to get an early start to the day as we had a guided tour to the Colosseum. I didn’t realize but the tour included the Forum and Palatine Hill as well. I had thought that we’d take in the For ... 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