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Shopping in Roma

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February 8th 2009
I woke up pretty late so I didn’t really leave my apartment until 3. Jordan, Al and I decided we wanted to take advantage of the last day of sales and headed out to Via del Corso. We walked from our apartment and therefore found some buildings near us that we didn’t know of previously. One of them I believe was the Spanish Embassy, but I am not sure. The other building had a beautiful foun ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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