Colosseo

Airports, buses, ferries circumvensia

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June 15th 2006
Quick update here from Capri where KJ, Aliya and I (melissa) are spending the day. After sad good-byes to the rest of the group, we stopped at the Sofitel to have dinner with our new friend from Canada before he headed to Afghanistan. We then slept the night of the 13th in the airport to make our plane in the morning. We arrived safely in Rome and did a quick tour of Trevi Fountain and othe ... 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