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Roaming in Rome

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September 20th 2009
The next part of this story,.... Rome is just such a history buff paradise. Pompei was wonderful, a compact history lesson on life as at 79 AD, but by being in Rome and checking out all the other sites, it is like the pieces of the jigsaw fall together. The funny thing about Pompei was that the town was severely shaken by an earthquake in AD 62, and there was a massive loss of life, and t ... 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