The courtyard

Europe 13: One bright Roman morning...

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July 18th 2008
We slept in and woke up nice and bright. Peeping out the window and seeing the narrow alleys and ruins, I realized that I was in Rome, where the ancient and the modern truly lived side by side. What I loved about Rome is the shift from Renaissance ruins to Baroque architecture to modern Rome and the fact that, all of that is visible in its entirety in the city. The hotel served us complimentar ... 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