Victor Emmanuel Monument

Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill, Trastevere

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May 4th 2012
Geo: 41.8955, 12.4823First stop Victor Emmanuel Monument followed by the Forum, Palatine Hill and the Colosseum.Traffic in Rome is organized chaos. The shots are from the Piazza Venezia. I will try to upload a video - watch the red tour bus get across an intersection. In another place a green pedestrian walk signal stills means negotiation with cars and scooters. Definitely safety is in numbe ... 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