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"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
August 22nd 2007 They call Rome the eternal city, though I had considerably less time to explore this most glorious of cities: two days to be precise; a quick stopover on the way to Crete. The late night taxi ride from the airport into town was hair raising, especially as Italy does not yet seem to have enacted laws relating to the simultaneous operation of vehicle and non hands free mobile phone, though not hair
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom
