View from National Monument

Rome - Day 3

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November 16th 2010
Started the day with a hearty breakfast of yogurt, croissant, coffee and fruit (can't keep that up for too long), and then off to our tour bus. We get on the tour bus at the Vatican, in front of St Peter's. We had bought a 48 hour ticket yesterday and of course we have to make the most of it. Investigated a few of the sites we had driven past before on the first tour, including the Pantheon, insid ... 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