Long Drive Ahead

Day 8: Auf Wiedersehen and Ciao! Driving from Zermatt to Rome

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September 19th 2015
221603SEP2015 Benvenuto a Roma! Again, I am catching up on long overdue entries. Please excuse my tardiness. I hope I remember enough to truly capture my experience. I think I do, I made audio notes the whole way to ensure I didn't miss specific things I wanted to highlight. In all honesty, I was ready to leave Switzerland. The views were breathtaking and it was clean, but ... 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