The Pope

Day 2 from the Vatican

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September 26th 2007
We woke up early, but everyone was pretty well rested. The boys decided that breakfast was less than stellar so we had to go the supermarket to get them some cereal they recognized. We saw the Pope today, the tickets from the Archdiocese (sp) were very good - we were about 8 rows from him. Then we toured the Basilica St Peters and a really groovy castle (St Angelo - the old residence of the P ... 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