The room for dinner at Casina Valadier

Still Eating my Way Through Rome

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September 11th 2008
So I will be very surprised if I haven't put on five pounds by the end of this conference because of all the good food! We have yet to do any touring, so tomorrow, I will actually have a blog about the Coliseum and the Forum (yay!). But today was still all about the food. For lunch, we went to Obika, a local mozzarella bar which is opening locations around the world. I expected there to be ... 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