Theatre of Pompey

Italia, Mio Amore!

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September 6th 2010
Ciao! I'm having a love affair with this city right now, just so everyone knows. I may never come home. 😊 We've had a great couple of days, though I'm completely exhausted right now. On Friday we stopped at a little cafe (or as we've learned they are often called, a bar. Bar's as we know them are always called pubs) for breakfast. It was suuuuper good! After that we had a 3 hour lesson 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