Trastevere apartment

Buongiorno Roma

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September 29th 2014
Geo: 41.89, 12.4744Today we had to leave Sicily and fly back to Rome for our last five days. Sicily has been great, rustic, dry and a little bit dirty, with brilliant food and wine. The hotel owner drove us the 45 minutes or so to the Palermo airport. At one stage I noticed the speedo at 160km/hr, it was a quick trip. We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare!We were taking an A ... 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