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Ostia Antica and Eataly

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January 11th 2014
Geo: 41.8894, 12.4947We got started at a better pace today - by 9.15am, we were out and having a coffee at Cathy's local bar/caffe, and had already had a decent breakfast of cornflakes! The boys and I even managed to drop into St Clemente to admire the mosaics again! At 10am, we met Cathy and Ian, leapt onto a tram that took us past the Colosseo, the Circus Maximus and the FAO (where Ian wo ... 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