View from Castel Sant'Angelo

The Amazing Sistine Chapel and the Vatican

---

October 17th 2014
Geo: 41.8955, 12.4823 Today was the day we had organised the Early Entry Express Sistine Tour. I had always wanted to see the Sistine Chapel and having seen photos of how crowded it gets, we decided to spend the extra money on this tour. It was one of the best decisions of our trip.We grabbed a taxi shortly after 7.00am as we had to meet in a stre ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

---

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