Piazza San Pietro

Gelato + sun = That's amore!

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May 14th 2010
Geo: 41.8955, 12.4823We were out of the hotel by 7:50 to take the Metro to the Vatican Museums. When we got there, we soon learned that there had been a power outage in the Vatican, so no one was able to go inside yet, regardless of reservation time. We waited in line for maybe twenty minutes before Reid decided to switch our morning and afternoon activities. So we left the museum line and went ... 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