Leonardo Express - Roma Termini

Our last days in Italy - on our way home!

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September 16th 2008
As you read this (if you are reading this!) we are on our flights home! Very excited about this. The last 24 hours was a bit of a whirl-wind, taking the train from Milan, arriving in Rome, heading out for last minute shopping, then for dinner, a sleep, another train to Fiumicino (Rome’s airport) and now waiting for our plane to Toronto.... After 4 different hotels, each with a pretty extens ... 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