The Coloseum

And 2 Becomes 4 in Rome

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March 5th 2007
Rome October 8 - 12, 2006 Sunday We took the 7 pm train from Paris to Rome. The woman at our hotel made us nervous that it didn’t actually leave from that station so we got there extra early to find out. It did leave from the station which meant we had 2 hours to kill at a very small train station situated near nothing of interest so we spent our time reading. We shared our cabin wit ... 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