First day in Rome, Trastevere, Pantheon, Plaza Navona, & Changing of the Guard
July 16th 2011 After a quick 2 hour flight from Athens and being met at the airport with a sign bearing our name (first time ever!), we were dropped off at our apartment in Rome. It wasn't too comforting that the driver was having trouble finding the place even with GPS, but it was late and we were too tired to care. We put an exhausted D to bed and Pat ran out and grabbed the equivalent of Roman fast food f
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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 
