Piazza Di San Pietro

Vatican City day

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March 3rd 2009
Day 2 of Rome was our Vatican City day. We had a tour scheduled for the Vatican Museums with Jerry in the afternoon, so we planned to spend the morning touring St. Peter's Basilica. Already too many Euro into the trip at this point, we were looking for ways to save a few bucks here and there. Since you can't cut down on the sightseeing in my opinion, food seemed to be the easiest place to cut ... 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