Riding a stone lion, because I can

A Country Within

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August 14th 2014
So it turns out that there are nice parts of Rome; you just have to be in the right area. A lot of where we were today was relatively nice; however, we spent most of our day heading in the general direction of Vatican City. By the way, I visited another country today, just because I could. On our way to the Holy See, we hit every non-Ancient City landmark you could name: Trevi Fountain (under r ... 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