Piazza Repubblica

Rome in 3 Days (with a Toddler)

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June 28th 2005
We stayed up packing late last night. Then Katherine got up at 2 a.m. to play with her birthday balloons. And we still had to get up at 6:00 a.m. so that we could drive back to Stansted to catch our flight. Katherine’s feeling much better, but I’m still very worried about her. She’s been snoring very loudly, like she’s congested, but at least she doesn’t have a fever anymore. We sto ... 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