Me at Vatican City

Roam Rome

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October 22nd 2002
Roaming Rome... We stayed at an acquiantance's house who gladly became our tour guide. We went to Vatican, into St. Peter's Basilica, to Sistine Chapel and walked up to Michael Angelo's castle. There were a lot of tourists in Vatican who wanted to see the Pope but very few Romans...do we still call them Romans? We went inside the St. Peter's Basilica, went to a basement to see St Peter' ... 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