Villa Medici Gardens

And Off To Rome We Go

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April 7th 2010
April 7 we woke up at 6 to catch our flight to Rome. We were taking the hostel’s “airport transfer service” which turned out to be the guy who had been working at reception the night before driving us like a manic in his station wagon from the hostel to the airport. We got to the airport so quickly, we again had plenty of time. In fact, our flight on blu-express (yes, that was the name of ou ... 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