Entrance of the church

Fish-N-Chips Club

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February 13th 2009
Today, I had Italian class at three thirty, but I decided I wanted to walk around Rome for a little while as well. Al and I walked down the main road by the center, Via Vittorio Emanuale. We came to this small piazza where there was a church inside. You can’t tell from the picture of the outside of the church, but inside, it was adorned with gold and colorful marble. It was beautiful. There ... 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