Rome

Day 13: Rome

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May 16th 2013
Today we got to explore Rome! We started our tour with the biggest and most well known structure, the Colosseum. It was amazing, they built it in about 8 years. It's a bit surreal being there, it's not every day you get to visit the colosseum. Then we went to the Roman Forum where we got to see where Julius Caesar was cremated and many other important events. I was starving so i had a pizz ... 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