Rome: The city that is probably in the top 3 must see destinations for every tourist!
September 2nd 2006 One of my best friends, Bianx, met me at the crazy Rome Termini train station from where she and her cousin took me to Nettuno, a small town about an hour out of Rome. We stayed there with her Zia Patricia and her family for the next few days and made day trips into Rome from there. Getting to stay with a real Italian family for the time there was great. I realized that the Italians, like most
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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 
