mosaic in the baths

another day in rome

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April 25th 2009
Today I went to St. Sebastion’s catacombs and basilica. It was a bunch of old dead people……zzzzzzzzzzzzzz OK I’m getting sleepy even just writing that! So today I did go to the catacombs but let’s make it a bit funnier! So no ceramic pots of doom today but… 7 miles of 100,000 dead people!!! How cool is that! My family and I went on a tour we don’t usually go on tours, but to get in w ... 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