Piazza Navona

Rome: Italy's beautiful capital

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September 15th 2015
There are cities that are modern, fashionable, shiny or trendy, but there is only one that is Eternal. Founded on a majestic location, on the banks of the Tiber River and between seven hills it was a city all great leaders wanted as their crown seat. For centuries it was the capital of the Old World, and even after the fall of the Great Roman Empire it still retained the world´s attention by attr ... 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