Us at the Colosseum

Rome

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September 15th 2007
Leaving Florence for Rome we decided to pay the extra fare supplement of 15€ each (very expensive) and take the Eurostar Italia train in 1.5 hours rather than the alternative "slow" train which took around 3.5 hours. You could really tell we were going fast on this train as we parallelled a freeway for most of the route and we really zoomed past the cars. When we arrived at Rome we found a hug ... 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