St. Peter's

Vatican!

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June 30th 2011
Have to make this kind of short because it’s really late. It’s also going to be short because as Faye and I were discussing, how do you blog about the Vatican? It’s pretty much that amazing that I don’t have words to describe it. We started our day off a little earlier than usual and headed straight for the Vatican. We intended to go to the Sistine Chapel first, but ended up walking into ... 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