Fountain at the Piazza di Spagna

Mellowing in Italy - Rome, Sunday 2007 April 29

---

April 29th 2007
After a very good nine-hour sleep, I felt ready for the day. The breakfast buffet was summer sausage, ham, cheeses, packaged pate and Tuscan bread with various other sweeter things, and cereal and juice. (I had the first part of this list). While I was eating, a couple from Australia came in and we had a nice chat about traveling. I packed my luggage and went for a walk along[url=https://en.wik ... 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