RJ and I at St Peter's Square

Rome

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June 11th 2007
Hello! I've just gotten back from a week in Rome. It was excellent! We had to get up at 3.10am on Monday to fly to Rome (cheap fares are crappy times). Flew to Rome and caught a bus to the city centre. We were the last ones on the bus so we had to sit next to random people. I sat next to an old man - don't know where he was from..... I'd been up since 3.10am, I had a nasty headache, still had ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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