Trevi Fountain

It comes to an end

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March 6th 2009
We sufficiently ran Mom and Dad into the ground sightseeing, so we did our own thing for their last day, and planned to meet for supper. We really had only one more site left on our list for major sights we wanted to see, the Roman catacombs. We had actually seen some catacombs at Alexandria in Egypt, but we wanted to check out these ones as well. There are a number of catacombs you can go ... 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