Inside the Pantheon

Halloween weekend in Rome

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November 4th 2014
Tuesday (28/10) Today my Roman Catholicism class went on quite the pilgrimage, visiting eight different churches. We saw many famous landmarks of Rome, such as the Fountain of the Four Rivers in the middle of Piazza Navona and the Pantheon, which itself is a church. One particular church we visited was the Basilica of Sant' Agostino. This church is home to the tomb of St Augustine's m ... 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