IMG_2772

Back in Rome

---

June 5th 2017
I can't believe that I have been in Italy for over a week now! It has all gone by so fast, and I feel like before I know it, I'll be back home. Today was a shorter day. We woke up early, and considering I got back to JFRC at 11:45 pm, you could say I was tired! We began the day at Sant'Agostino Church. There, we saw Caravaggio's Madonna di Loreto and more than a dozen of other famous sculpt ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

---

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