Italy #3 487

Walking tour of Sorianoa

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February 7th 2010
Sunday 7.2.210 day 116 Walking tour of Sorianoa We went to the resort welcome talk and then went on a 3 hour walking tour of the town that we are staying in we went to a few of the churches and the Castello Orsini which had a few popes stay in it and lots of rules but it them became a prison for 200 years but is no longer. Most of the people in the town work in Rome. We then had lunch and went t ... 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