Vatican City

Rome - Italy

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May 29th 2008
Thursday 29th May - Woke up with a terrible hangover! The last scotch on ice with Tim and Debbie the night before took its toll. Running late I walked over to the Termini Station and caught the metro to Octavia Station and met up with a tour guide for The Vatican City. We collected our audio headsets and went ut into one of the landscaped gardens to the side. Unfortunately the weather was not grea ... 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