The Pantheon

When in Rome...Walk 13 hours (the second half of our 13 hr walk!)

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November 18th 2008
The best part of my lunch was the orange juice I saw squeezed into my glass. The rest I could have done without, including the baby octopus calamari which was from a different batch than I had ordered! It brought back bad memories from Charleston and a particular present from the sushi chef...yuck! After lunch we headed towards the Pantheon. It's so crazy how in the middle of random plazas with e ... 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