The line up to the Colosseum

When in Roma

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November 1st 2011
After a bit of surfing looking at where I could go for a reasonable amount of euro Rome won out. Having pretty much surrounded it in previous incarnations around Europe now the time was right to drop on in and see what it had to offer. As sad as it sounds, due to an unfortunate set of circumstances I’ve ended up spending a week in Rome. Not having researched it at all before I was having a bit o ... 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