St Peters

Vatican City

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June 8th 2010
Eight am...hopped on the metro and headed across Rome for a 9:30 am tour of the Vatican. Our tour guide was great, a young guy from...Napa, Valley, California ;-) No translations needed. The tour was 3 1/2 hours and we really had to keep moving along just to be able to see the most important works and rooms of the Vatican, Vatican Museums, St. Peters and the Sistine Chapel. Looking up always as 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