Ancient Rome

When in Rome...

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January 12th 2011
Buongiorno! (Mike and Susanna - that phrase book you gave me for my birthday is the handiest thing I own right now!) Anyway, we arrived in Rome on 4th Jan, after meandering our way down from Vienna via the towns of Villach and Bologna (as in Spaghetti Bologna-ise) and it was everything we expected - amazing, expensive, historical, crowded, and most of all - f**kin busy considering it's the midd ... 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