Rome Photo 4

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Rome

February 8th 2009
We have been in Rome for over a week now. It’s hard to figure out where to begin the story - flying over the Swiss Alps and seeing a green Italy laid out before us from the window of the plane - or now as we are thinking of packing our bags to take the train to Florence some ten days later. We began as awestruck tourists visiting Rome and we will leave as though we have lived in Rome. We had a r ... 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

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