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Italy part 3: Kissed by a Roman

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May 30th 2007
Not by any deliberate choice of ours, we took a pretty creative route between Siena and Rome. We took a local bus from the main bus station to get to the train station, only to find out a few minutes later that we were going the wrong way. We hopped off, got some vague directions in broken English and general hand waves to the train station, walked a kilometre or so, stopped and waited at the rig ... 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