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Romeing around Rome

June 18th 2012
Rome I was extremely excited to see the coastline of Italy appear out my window and I think I was even more excited than when I first landed on European soil coming into Manchester airport for my connecting flight to Edinburgh. It was a lot flatter on the coast than I was expecting and I kept looking for a big city to see if I could find Rome. Having no reference point, I couldn't, but I en ... read more
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Italian Flag 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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