Tower in Siena

Oh Orvieto!

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October 12th 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007 - Last day in Roma! Okay, let’s take stock and see what we HAVEN’T done here. The Appia Antica and catacombs and another outlet. And away we GO! Kevin and I expected the Catacombs to be like the ones in Paris, and they weren’t, at all. We only went into one, St. Sebastian, but it was very interesting to see the tomb rooms, and the burial niches, dating from the ... 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