Pantheon

Rome - Day 4

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September 15th 2013
Today I decided to take it easy. I had two things on my "must do" list. 1) Laundry, despite over packing clean clothes were starting to get sparse, and 2) see the Pantheon. The hotel receptionist had given me a flyer for a self- serve laundrette around the corner. So I figured that would take the most time so off I trundled in the morning with a bag full of laundry. It appears the Italian idea of ... 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