Borghese

Day 11 - June 24 - Il Borghese

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June 24th 2010
This was the worst day yet. I woke up at 11 feeling deathly ill and wanted to stay in bed. I linered, listening again to the piano music drfting in through the window, while Sam made us breakfast. But we had 1:30 reservations at the Borghese Gallery and I knew if we did not go then, we would not get to see it. I told Sam, however, that I would not walk all the way across Rome to get there. We woul ... 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