St Peter's square

Glorious Rome

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May 20th 2008
Rome is one of those places that everyone has to visit at least once in their life. Love it or hate it, it does make an impression. I quite liked it, although it was a bit big and noisy for my liking. Unlike a lot of other cities in Italy, it was also a bit of a historical mess. You have thousand year old structures standing alongside medieval buildings and brand spanking new ones. But the sense ... 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