Colosseum

Rome

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May 17th 2013
Day 1 We arrived in Rome at the ridiculously early time of 7am. Oli visited Rome about ten years ago but as he has the memory of a fish it was like doing it all over again for him. We got a Terravision bus to Termini station which cost 4 Euro then caught the metro to our hotel. We stayed at Caesar’s Rooms which is right next to Ottaviano stop and two streets north of Vatican City. The tube was ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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