Day 15 - In Rome - but no Vatican or Sistine Chapel, except at a distance :(
October 24th 2013 After in-house lovely continental breakfast, it was off to the Colosseum. We were fortunate it was early and no long queues. What an amazing structure! Roy relived every moment of every novel he has ever read about the Romans! and think Greg imagined himself as a gladiator too. We joined the hop on hop off bus and did the full circuit before conducting our own walking/metro tour of the city. We l
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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 
