Galleria Victor Emmanuele II

On a Red Arrow

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January 14th 2014
Geo: 45.4637, 9.18813It was probably the perfect morning to be leaving Rome - pouring rain, and getting colder...still, it was very hard to realise that, to all intents and purposes, our holiday was ending.We packed - bloody hell, how did we accumulate so much stuff? I blame Steven! - and then shipped the kids downstairs to wait with Cathy whilst we met the landlord and checked out of the apa ... 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