"The Wedding Cake" Building with lovelocks

Rome

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November 9th 2014
Thursday (6/11) Today after Italian class, we decided to go to the local grocery store to pick up some snacks. The weather seemed to be rather cool, as the sky was getting cloudy and dark. When we left the store, it was just downpouring. Completely unprepared for it, we reckoned to just bear it and walk home through the torrential rain. It was quite bad, as the gutters of the street had ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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