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Tuesday the Seventh

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April 7th 2015
We had great plans for the day, starting with a tour of St Peter’s Basilica. Arriving a little early we went to the piazza to take a few pictures and discovered perhaps 4,000 teenagers waiting to go through security and get into the basilica for a special mass with Pope Francis. Our tour guide, when we found him, said it might take 90 minutes to get through security, leaving only an hour or so f ... 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