St. Peters

Rome in a Day

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October 15th 2010
Well today was our full day visit to Rome. Since I’d never been here we wanted to see as much as possible. John had been here as a child and again with friends about 25 years ago. He wanted to see the Sistine Chapel since it was undergoing restoration on his last visit. We had to meet in the showroom about 6:30 a.m. for our Eternal Rome and Vatican Museum tour scheduled for 12 hrs. We headed o ... 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