St Peter's Dome

Roman Holiday

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October 5th 2007
Day 15 Friday 5 October 2007 Roman Holiday Wake up 5:44am Breaky 6:30am Meet 7am We had a very early start to get to the Vatican. Rome is a mad city. Cars everywhere. Vespas even worse. The group line up was quite long when we go there. The public were already queued even though they wouldn’t be let in until after 9:30am. We met our guide Franka and went in aroun ... 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