Colosseum

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January 18th 2006
Buono Sera! We are currently lounging around our excellent hostel called Alice in Wonderland drinking italian beer, Dolmen, because it has been raining ALL day and we just needed to be dry for awhile. We were quite the troopers hanging in the rain from 9am to 6pm so that we could get in the last few sites before we leave tomorrow morning. Since we havent written in a day we will recap the last 36 ... 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