in the hallway of the dome

Rome

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July 10th 2005
Went to Rome over the weekend. In a sketchy turn of events we were riding on the Eurostar to Rome the day of the bombings in London. The trains were delayed so we got to Rome about an hour and a half late, but everything was alright. We decided not to take the metro in Rome except to and from the train station. Although that led to a lot of walking, we saw what we needed to see. We went to Va ... 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