Entrance to St Peter's Basilica

Roman ruin rigmarole

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February 8th 2009
Sometimes you tend to roam through far away countries, spending endless hours getting there and back again, where so many good things are actually within a short distance of where you live. Like Rome. I'd realized that I'd never been to the Eternal City, which is a shame, when you think about it, one of the biggest tourist drawcards in the world just one and a half hours by plane away. So one c ... 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