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ROMA (Day 78)

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July 28th 2010
Rome was not built in a day and you sure as hell cannot see it in one. I should know. I tried. Got up a little after 5:30 as the sun was rising so I would not be found in the park ha. Dropped my bag off in a locker in Roma Termini station and after grabbing a map set out to see as much of Rome as I could. Headed back up by Villa Borghese to the Piazza del Popolo and from there over to the Span ... 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