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Good Friday the Third

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April 3rd 2015
Although we managed to get to sleep not long after 9:00, John was up early and took a walk – to Campo di Fiori, then Piazza Navona, then Forte San Angelo, then Piazza Vaticano, then back to the hotel – with some great pictures of the moon rising on Good Friday over the Vatican. We had a wonderful breakfast on the roof of the hotel, overlooking the morning sun and the “wedding cake” (Vittor ... 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