The Roman Forum

Unofficial Officials

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June 1st 2018
The flight to Rome was on time, non eventful and nothing special to report (which is a good thing), other than some fantastic views over Geneva (recognisable from the water spout, even at 35,000 feet) and the Alps. Stunning. I had been to Rome before when I was Inter-railing, a life-time ago (see The Best £3.50 Ever Spent and Back to Rome), and one memory was how magnificent the Italian train st ... 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