Trying the bubblers

Get your archaelogical hat on yo!

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December 28th 2010
For the first time this trip (please excuse any spelling mistakes, the keyboard is crazy here) I've been dumbstruck by a site; The Colloseum. Wow. We spent the entire day wandering the ruins of Ancient Rome: including the Roman Forum; the Pantheon; the Palatine and Capitoline Hills. It is astounding the think of the thousands of years these ruins have been laying about for, all that the city has ... 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