Rome

Day 3: Rome

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May 5th 2013
This morning Nakita and I went back into the centre of Rome. This time we managed to keep walking past the shops and made it to the end of the long street. What we thought was the colosseum in the distance was actually something different. It was the il vittoriano which is an amazing building. Apparently the locals don't like this building as much because it's so big it blocks out the othe ... read more

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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