Roma, Italy

Like a big pizza pie....

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June 23rd 2011
It was time to speed things up again and this morning we were leaving for Roma. It was a 620 am train to catch and this time we had asked the hotel to reserve one of the 2 taxis in town to take us to the train station. Our local train took us to Milan, the fashion capital of the world. This was apparent in the train station itself as thousands of commuters and locals were on their way to work dres ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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