Guarding the first King of Italy

Day 3 in Rome

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September 27th 2007
We started the day at the Pantheon. The trip there was interesting - the first taxi driver we had booted us out after about 2 blocks because we 'couldn't agree with the meter'. Oh well, he surely missed our sparkling conversation! The Pantheon was so impressive. It is hard to get over how the Romans built all these beautiful monuments and buildings without a caterpillar (or a union for that ... 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