COLOSSEUM AND PANTHEON Photo 1

COLOSSEUM AND PANTHEON

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May 28th 2009
HELLO HELLO!! So, today we got up at 7am to get ready for the Colosseum and the Pantheon. We had to get on the 8:29 train to Rome and then take the bus to the colosseum area. IT WAS SO HOTTTTT!!!! mal and i have realized that the italians do not sweat here. We got on this cramped bus for about 20 minutes and it was so hott!!!! Everyone is in my bubble!! But then we got out and went to Palatine Hil ... 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