Campo de Fiori Market

We Are Against War and Tourist Menus

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April 25th 2009
The title of this posting is not a direct quote from us (although it does resonate with us, and appropriate given that it is Anzac Day at home) but rather a message that we saw on a blackboard outside a restaurant during our rambles the other day (don't ask me where - it was another of our times of walking with no real objective). And so the subject of this posting - as alluded to in our previous ... 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