IMGP7934

Cities of the Underground - Rome

---

October 2nd 2017
We only had a short walk this morning from our apartment to visit the renowned Basilica of St Clement. It was generally believed that the present Basilica was the one to which St Jerome referred in 392 AD when he wrote that a Church in Rome preserves the memory of St Clement. In 1857, Fr Joseph Mullooly began excavating under the present Basilica, breaking through a small hole to uncover the origi ... 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