First view of the Colosseum

A City of Old

---

August 15th 2014
So, I have to be honest here: Barcelona was a much more impressive city than Rome. Granted, there were some cool things about Rome (such as that a bunch of what we saw was built in BCE, and almost all of it was probably older than the USA. However, the food is Rome was, at best, underwhelming. Except for the one dinner we found in the Testevera area of the city, I've had better food in the North E ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

---

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