ROMA! (and a little super bowl) Photo 3

ROMA! (and a little super bowl)

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February 5th 2008
Another busy weekend has passed, and this one I spent in Rome! Our call time was 6:15 AM at the train station, and while we made it, it was definitely a rough morning. We even made time to grab a quick caffe latte (my new favorite, and one of the largest drinks they sell) though that might have been why we almost missed the train. A quick 2 hour train ride later, we landed in Roma, quickly dropped ... 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