Rome

Semana Santa Part II- Rome

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May 4th 2009
Finally I'm getting around to recording my last four days of Semana Santa. On Holy Thursday I woke up early and walked 15 minutes or so from Niki's apartment to the train station and bought a danish on the way for breakfast. My train was 10 minutes late but other than that everyone ran smoothly. The train was only 1.5 hours and then I followed directions to the hostel by taking the metro a fe ... 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