Trajan's Column Detail

Italian Adventure!

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October 11th 2012
The Ancient City I know, it's been a few days, sorry! We've been busy and (as we experienced last year) WiFi here may be free, but it is sketchy. Thursday morning we set out to meet our guide for a tour of Rome's Ancient City. We meet at Trajan's Column, a monument to the Emporer Trajan, which depicts his efforts at increasing the size of the Roman Empire. Trajan's ... 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