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Day 24 - Revisiting the Vatican (fingers crossed)

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November 2nd 2013
We booked La Spezia for the next three nights. That meant heading way up north again but it will also meant that I will see the Cinque Terre and no way did I want to leave Italy without seeing the CT. So up early in Rome and off to the Vatican, again by metro. We visited the Dome (chose the ascendore, not the stairs as we are both suffering from sore knees and my hips and legs are also uncomf ... 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