Circo Massimo

Last Day for Family!

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June 22nd 2008
Lucky for us Fabio joined up with us in the morning to start another day of site-seeing at Rome. With Fabio, we passed by the Vittoriano, the Colosseum and Circo Massimo together, and ended up seeing the Mouth of Truth -- la Bocca della Verita'... we are all still with our hands so looks like we didn't lie! We then headed into the Trastevere area and saw St. Cecilia's church, in which a wedding wa ... 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