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Morning streets of Rome

and the clock on the right reads just after 9. The city doesn't get moving until 9:30 or so.
The Colosseum

August 2nd 2012
Sunday morning we get up and check out of our hotel and leave to go catch our Colosseum tour. Our flight doesn't leave until the evening, but our tour will run later than our checkout time, and since we only have a backpack for the weekend, we end up carrying our backpacks through the tour. Thankfully, they were relatively light! We meet up with our tour group right outside the Colosseum. I ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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