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Rome

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June 3rd 2012
Rome was superb. I've heard so much about Rome from others and from books and was thinking it would be just another city -- it wasn't, it was ROME. Our trip from Vernazza to Rome was underwhelming - cancelled train meant we missed our train to Rome and though we easily got another we ended up spending 4 hours in total waiting on train stations. So a very tiring day. By ... 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