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Mama mia! A Roman Holiday...

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February 7th 2006
The past few weeks Vienna has been wrapped in a dense winter haze. Not cloudy with clouds you can see, just a homogenously gray sky. This is complemented by a kind of snow, tiny needle-like crystals that sort of swirl in all directions and thus coat tree branches on all sides, which gives the whole landscape an otherworldly feel. Through this I travelled to the airport, and bundled up in fleece ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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