Pace

Filipino community of Testaccio

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June 3rd 2003
As much as I like to explore Rome as a tourist, living in Rome as a ‘temporary’ citizen of Rome as our instructor Katherine referred to, is interesting. By day eight, everything becomes so ordinary for us - a group of ignorant tourists everywhere blocking the narrow streets of Rome talking in different languages, doing groceries, loud dump truck that regularly comes at one in the morning in fr ... 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