At the Castle San Angelo

Day 13 - June 26 - Castle San Angelo

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June 26th 2010
We got started by 10:30 the next day, which let me listen to a few minutes of the piano music that started around nine before dragging myself back to bed. We trained back up to St. Peters, and to our disappointment the Cuppola line was long. We waited 40 minutes, but we wanted to see it. There were excellent views at the top but like the Vatican it was very crowded and the climb was worse than Flo ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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