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Day 10 - Rome

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May 5th 2016
This morning we had a bit of a sleep in (besides the bells waking us up again!) then we had to wrestle against an American lady to get a table for our buffet breakfast (there was so much competition at 8.30am!). After we'd won the battle for the breakfast table we then went shopping (yay!). After our morning of shopping we went to the train station and made our way to Rome. We got the train statio ... 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