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June 17th 2006
Hi Guys, So I left Positano (reluctantly) on Tuesday night and got into Rome around midnight. It was so hard to leave the beach and the five amazing English girls I met there. They were FABulous! I am now going to stay with them in Bologna on the 21st where they have been studying for the past year...Can't wait! So Rome has been amazing. So much to see and the crowds are not too bad YET! It has ... 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