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Day 12 - Rome

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May 7th 2016
Today was another massive day for us! We got picked up from our hotel by our driver and guide and headed out to see the modern parts of Rome (tomorrow we do ancient Rome). We saw so many things today so I'm just going to talk about the highlights. One of the things we saw was an old church. It looked very plain on the outside and it's something we would have walked straight past and not bothered t ... 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