Ponte San Angelo

Arrivederci Roma

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April 28th 2009
Yes that inevitable time has come for us to unsettle ourselves at Chiavari, pack our bags and leave Rome to head north. So what are our impressions and recollections of the Eternal City at this time? For me, they are best expressed in the Centrale Montemartini “museum” where roman sculptures (the cast offs from the Capitoline museum, but as cast offs go they are pretty amazing) are wonderfull ... 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