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ROME DAY3

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November 14th 2017
ROME DAY 3 Today we left Rome to go to Civitavecchia to board our ship. On the way we decided to see Ostia Antica. It is very cold again and raining. Valentina is our guide today. The drive ti Ostia takes about 1 hour. For over 600 years Ostia was Rome’s main port and a bustling commercial center. Around the 5th century AD the town started to decline because of malaria and competition of ... 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