Tarquinia

Tarquinia

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May 22nd 2007
With a sad heart, we said goodbye to Proceno this morning and headed to the Rome airport to catch a flight to London. The good news was that I didn’t have to say goodbye to Mom and Lynn quite yet. We had decided that we wanted to do one more stop before we got on the plane, so we stopped about halfway to Rome at Tarquinia. This is a spot famous for its Etruscan burial grounds and it is a great ... 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