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Ciao per Roma!!

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May 5th 2009
buongiorno everyone! sorry it took so long for us to write. we are on our 3rd morning in rome and will be leaving on the train for florence. we had to sprint in new york to make the plane for rome. it was a close call and joe about died when we sat down. he could not catch his breath so the girl across the isle wrapped her sweater around her face thinking he had the swine flu! we got to ... 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