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When in ROME....

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October 4th 2013
St. Peter's Basilica, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Roman Ruins, Colosseum, and can't forget gelato. Rome might have started off in a crazy fashion but we were ready to get out of the hotel the next morning. The sun was up and started the day off perfectly before we had to figure out the bus system. The hotel gave us the stops we needed to get us to St. Peter's Basilica and a ma ... 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