Vatican

Rome day 2

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October 16th 2012
Tuesday Oct 16th 10:30 AM tour of the Vatican that lasted until 2:30. The tour guide Luigi was an art history major and a typically pasionate and animated Italian which made the tour interesting and fun. Even at this time of the year the Vatican is wall-to-wall people. Then a quick sandwich and we caught the bus, the correct direction this time, and went back to the old section to walk t ... 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