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Thursday Ancient Room 9-18-14

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September 18th 2014
We began the morning with our first tour of the trip. We met our tour guide at 8:30 am this morning at entrance of the Colosseum. Our tour guide Francesca gave us a wonderful and informative tour of the Colosseum. The Colosseum took 10 years to build and had events twice a week. It held 60,000 people and even had a cotton dome top (sort like the old Metrodome), except they had slaves to pulley it ... 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