St. Peter's Basillica

Rome

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June 18th 2014
Geo: 42.0912, 11.7968Today we ported in Civitavecchia which is the port of Rome. We had a little later start since we were meeting our guide at 8:00. We had arranged for a private driver to take us around Rome today. His name was Claudio and he was from Rome. He took us to his car and we started on what was supposed to be a 45 minute drive to Rome. We made it to the outskirts of town in ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Civitavecchia

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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