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ROME ROME ROME! :)

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June 3rd 2011
Well today in Rome me and dad got the chance of a lifetime and went on this tour called the Scavi Tour. This tour only about 120 people go on a day when about 20,000 people visit St. Peter's Basillica a day! On the Scavi Tour, we were taken below St. Peter's Basillica underground to the tombs of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th century Christians and Catholics, which ended at St. Peter's tomb. A ... 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