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Rome Day 3

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December 1st 2007
We again decided to sacrifice breakfast for an extra hour in bed but again the sun was shining and we were raring to go. As usual, the second day is harder as you have seen all of the easy stuff on the first day but we had a good plan worked out. We again went past the vatican only this time we headed south to the Campo de' Fiori, via a tiny pizzeria where we purchased (yep, you guessed it) a r ... 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