With Our Guide Simonetta

Vatican City

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April 20th 2015
We woke early this morning and caught a cab to Vatican City, a 110 acre independent county with a population of 283 located entirely inside the City of Rome (thank you Wikipedia). It is ... obviously ... the religious center of the Roman Catholic Church. To stay ahead of the crowds, we arrived at the Vatican about 7:00 a.m. After taking some photos we marched into Saint Peter's Basilica. Not ... 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