Feline friend at Largo Argentina

Roma

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September 16th 2009
We spent this past weekend in Rome. Rome was not the golden, rosy town I recalled from my honeymoon. It is noisy, dirty, polluted and traffic-infested. It was not lovely or romantic. I was not drifting down streets gently washed by rain, or standing alone in the shaft of light shining through the roof of the Pantheon, or gazing at a lovely sunset as I lounge alongside the Tiber, or stand ... 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