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Rome

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May 29th 2008
Took the bus for the almost two hour drive to Rome today. We had about 5 hours in the city, but a midday rainstorm limited us to three things: The Colosseum, lunch (pizza again!) and Trevi Fountain. The scale of the Colosseum was huge - felt as bit as Wrigley Field, but built about 2100 years earlier. Trevi Fountain was also much larger than expected and we all contributed the Roman economy by ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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