The Sacred Road

Days 3 & 4 – Colosseum and the Vatican

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May 17th 2014
Today we have a tour of the Colosseum and have to be at our meeting site at 9:15. We leave the hotel around 8:00 knowing we have plenty of time as it is about a 35 minute walk. A friend, (Lia) that recently took the same tour, suggested we pick up a sandwich as there are no good places to get a bite around the Colosseum during the 30-minute break. During our previous walks around Rome we noticed t ... 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