St Peter's (afternoon 2)

These columns surround the whole square that faces St. Peters and the Sistine Chapel. There's also 2 fountains like the one in the picture. Notice the huge line of people waiting to get into St. Peter's...we were glad we got up early to see everything and avoided that line!

Rome - Day 2

September 22nd 2005
We started out our second day in Rome with a very early alarm. We knew we wanted to see the Vatican and Sistine Chapel and heard that the line was horrible, so we chose to get up early and be in line before it opened at 8:15. We were down in our hotel lobby at 7 am for our free breakfast, but it turned out to not be worth much (really, really bad actually) and we chose to skip it the following ... 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

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