Stain Glass

The Theme Parks of Roma

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September 4th 2009
8/27/09 We woke early today or should I say my early bird husband woke me early. He fixed eggs and some hard bread for me for breakfast. Italians seem to eat hard bread a lot...and, when in Rome. We caught the bus at the campground Tiber that took us to the Il Traino (train station). The mammas where feeding a bunch of ferrel cats next to the train station. The myth is that when all the ... 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