Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II

Quando a Roma...

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March 31st 2011
‘You’ve never been to Rome? Oh, you’ve got to go to Rome‘. That’s what we’d been told time and time again and so we listened to the collective ‘everyone’ and with some cheap flights and a handy hostel booked for two nights we’re off. After negotiating our way into the city from the airport, we’re hungering for a bite of lunch. In food terms, Rome is unknown (to us). Findin ... 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