VATICAN Photo 1

VATICAN

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May 27th 2009
HEY everyone!! we went to Rome today and went to vatican city!!!! OH MY GOD!!! its absolutely breathtaking! right when we walked into St. Peters square I of course started to cry. I can not even explain the feeling that i got when i walked in to St. Peters square. Mallory and I continued to just ask each other if this was real. We told ourselves how lucky we were to be able to experience this and ... 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