A True Roman Gladiator

Last Stop... Rome

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May 7th 2009
Hello, Checking in from our last stop, the Eternal City, Rome. We arrived without a hitch and were very pleased to escape the country of Greece, not for its beauty and history but because most peoples attitudes. We both found, for the most part, that the Greeks were pretty rude and seemed like we were wasting their time. From the time we landed the people in Rome have been really nice and a ... 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