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Isola Sacra

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October 29th 2005
The remains of ancient Rome's sea port - Ostia Antica - are pretty well known, but not so much the cemetery - Necropoli di Porto - linked with it, located on the other side of the Tiber on Isola Sacra. We'd been talking about going for months... After doing a little research on Sean's part we followed instructions he found at http://www.ostia-antica.o ... 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