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Rome

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September 4th 2007
This jetlag thing is allowing me time in the middle of the night to update the travelblog from our travel journals....don't know if that's a good thing or not! We arrived in Rome in the middle of the afternoon on Thursday, August 23rd to overcast skies but very warm temperatures - a sign of things to come! We opted to take a cab to Francesca's apartment, as I wasn't quite ready to look for the ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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