Colosseum

A City Fit for Giants

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January 23rd 2018
Rome was a wild ride. It felt like an amusement park with its enormous, unreal buildings filling the city with all kinds of colors. Even the trees looked fabricated. It was such a short trip made up of long days, it is hard for me to gather my thoughts. Initially, my first thoughts regarding Rome were; it’s busy, it was built for giants, I miss Florence. As I reflect on the trip, I learn to appr ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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