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Consider Rome Conquered

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July 11th 2007
I really do believe we have seen more of Rome than most Romans ever have or ever will. We have walked all over this city and seen it from all sides. We never once took a bus or the metro in fact. Most people say that public transit in Rome is a joke, though we have friends here who seem to use it quite easily. It has been interesting to see sites all over the city where they are trying to build a ... 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