The Pantheon, Rome

Rome in a day

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July 5th 2013
Geo: 42.1299, 12.1727Apologies for lack of entries in the last few days, but the Internet here is not particularly user-friendly, so here we go...Monday morning we left Assisi with our friendly Milanese neighbours waving us off on what we thought would be a relatively straightforward transfer to our next stop on Lake Bracciano. We got to within a few miles of the lake on a mixture of motorway ... 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