Twin Churches

A Funny Story and Leaving Rome

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June 13th 2011
Before we tell you about leaving Rome I must go back to Sunday night and tell you a funny story about our dinner at Trattoria il Palarro. Use your imagination to picture this... We knew in advance that our dinner would be a set menu of 8 courses and that the portions were very generous. Even still, the first course of antipasta arrived at our table and looked like a whole meal by itself. Proscuto, ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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