Spanish Steps leading up to the Trinita dei Monti Church. Keats and Shelley Museum on the lower right.

Adventures in Italy: Day 18, Rome

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April 23rd 2017
Italy Day 18, Friday, October 21, Rome In the morning, Renato Ricci, our Program Director for Rome, who replaced Ben, our Program Director for Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast, met those of us who chose to stay on for the Rome extension in the lobby of our Hotel Albani. We begin a walk with Renato in the Quatiere Coppede neighborhood with buildings clustered in the unique ... 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