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Rome - We Came, We Conquered, We Left

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August 3rd 2006
We arrived in Rome, after a 36 hour ferry ride from Rijeka, Croatia to Bari, Italy and a 7 hour train trip from Bari to Rome. The next few days were for resting and working on the blog. On the third day, we ventured out to see the great sites that we knew were just minutes away. Because our hotel was on the outskirts of the city, with no form of transportation directly there, the hotel prov ... 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