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The City That Sits On Seven Hills

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October 3rd 2017
A very early start this morning for Kim and I, getting up at 5.30am for a quick breakfast, followed by a ten minute walk to Colloseo Underground Station to catch a metro train to Termini, Rome’s version of Central Station. From there we had to change lines to catch a train to Ottaviano, the closest station to the tour we had booked from Australia some months ago, the Vatican. We had to be across ... 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