Colosseum with the moon

Good Friday - Stations of the Cross

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April 10th 2009
Today was Good Friday, and also the beginning of Spring Break. After finishing two midterms (of course I had two on the last day of classes), I relaxed a little bit before getting ready to go to the Stations of the Cross. The Pope goes through the 14 stations at the Colosseum and for this night, all of the Imperial Forums and Palatine hills and the Colosseum were really well lit. I wasn't exact ... 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