First picture in Rome

Off to Rome

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April 10th 2008
We were out the door by 8:30am with our very very heavy luggage. By this point I was lugging around all of the glass that I had bought in Venice (gondolas, jewelry, wine stoppers, etc) and three bottles of lemoncielo. I was going to have my work cut out for me to get to the train station. It was a pretty strenuous journey trying to navigate the construction and gravel roads, and it even started ... 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