Trevi fountain

Roma

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May 5th 2010
Rome was our final destination on the tour, and what a great city to end it in! We had a long bus ride from Venice to get there, but as soon as we arrived we stretched our legs and did a walking tour with Mariangela. We saw the Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain, the Panthenon, the baroque Piazza Navona and Bernini’s Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi (founta ... 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