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June 3rd, Wednesday

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June 3rd 2015
Today was a beautiful day. We headed to the Vatican and happened to stumble into an audience with the Pope and Bill says 50,000 others. It was pretty amazing how many people were there. St. Peter's square is so impressive. We also hit the Castel Sant'Angelo as known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian, Piazza Navona with the Fountain of the Four Rivers, the Pantheon and the Spanish Steps (very unimpressiv ... 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