Vernazza - Cinque Terre

We may never leave!

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August 4th 2008
This morning we headed to the Vatican. We were at St.Peter's Basilica by 8:00am. It was wonderful. There were no crowds at this time and we could appreciate our surroundings. We then headed to the Vatican Museum which houses the Sistene Chapel. We found the people and the crowds. It was 9:00am and you cannot imagine the amount of people that were in line already. We decided to join a to ... 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