Rome

Day 24 Firenze (Florence) to Roma (Rome)

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December 31st 2002
(Recalled Nov '09) Tuesday Sadly there are no more entries in our travel diary. We must have both had had enough of it. So it will be photos and whatever I can recall 7 years later from here. We had another very long walk from the train station to the hotel (Claridge Hotel). There was a supermarket directly across the street from our hotel so we went for usual supplies. We arrived in ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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