Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II

When in Rome...

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March 7th 2008
I went to Rome for the weekend of February 21-25 with 17 other people in my program. It was not a trip organized through our program, so we borrowed guide books from our families and did research online to figure everything out. At first only about 6 of us were planning on going, but then when other people found out about it and how cheap the flights were (30 Euro), they decided to join us. That d ... 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