The Colosseum

When in Rome...

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April 9th 2008
After two days on the beaches of Nice, we boarded another night train to Rome, Italy. It wasn't really my favorite place, way too many tourists, but we did see a lot of famous sites. We started at the Colosseum, where the gladiators used to battle lions and such. It was huge. I might even go so far as to call it colossal 😊 I was just a little bit disappointed because they were in the pr ... 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