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Any Road Will Get You There

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April 15th 2009
Well we made it - and all rather painlessly, or should I say smoothly, as those long plane flights are bits of killers even if the travel is uneventful - and are now settled into Via dei Chiavari. And the apartment is wonderful, everything we had hoped for and more. And as I compose this posting the view I have is exactly the one in the photo, and so here is a bit of vicarious Rome for you, alth ... 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