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Colossus Colosseum

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October 1st 2011
Today we decided to adventure out to the ancient part of Roma.. Bought our Metro day passes and headed towards the Colosseum and ancient forum. It was pretty amazing and beautiful to see the colosseum in all its ancient glory inside and out. We paid for a tour so that we would skip the "queue" lol and as soon as we got inside we booked it from the tour guide as she was almost as old as the Col ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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