Rome

Rome, Italy March 29, 2016

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November 17th 2016
Rome: The Amazing Race! This day was just a frantic blast. We had had quite a few sea days before Naples so that gave me lots of time to plan our day. Poker buddy Sharon loaned me her tablet to peruse her extensive collection of walking tour guides of Rome. I took photos of the maps in the tour guides in the library so I could be looking at my camera instead of a big foldout map and perha ... 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