Off the balcony looking into the courtyard-Salerno

Last Day was a BIG Day!

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October 23rd 2015
Geo: 41.8955, 12.4823I'm going to keep this short as it was a very busy day and I'm very tired! ;-) Got up about 7 am, the goal was to leave by 8:15, we left about 8:25ish... close enough! We walked to the Vatican Museum and walked past hundreds of people standing in line to get in. We had bought our tickets online, we still had to be in a line for a short while to get through security ... 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