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Let me introduce myself to Rome, my new home

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May 20th 2003
Be polite; introduce yourself, so it can introduce itself to you - Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) Roma! I got Goosebumps on my neck when the Immigration Officer finally grabbed his rubber stamp and striked my passport with the European Union Italia entrance mark. This was how our adventure in Italy started. It was almost too easy - I had prepared to have som ... 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