Rome for Christmas

I'll be Rome for Christmas

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January 13th 2009
(December 24th - 26th) Ah Rome! The “History” of our three-city tour of Italy. Rome holds some of my most cherished, most secret, and most embarrassing memories with my dearest friend Cheryl. Rome is also the site of the pubcrawl on which I met Rob whom we stayed with in Dublin, Ireland and Rik whom we stayed with in Leiden, Holland. So before I get into my “Roman Holiday” with Brian, ... 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