looks deserted

just too hot to stand out in the square in the sun. notice the poster in the distance is a pic of the OLD DEAD pope?? not sure why

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the markets, the pope, the castle

June 19th 2011
Sunday Another hotter than hell day to where else to go but the Vatican for some salvation?! But my first stop was the huge Sunday market at Ponte Palatino. I walked the short distance to the train station that was also the bus interchange as I knew I could get a bus to the markets from here. Seemed that all the other tourists in Rome were armed with this information also, so unfortunately ... 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

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