Background: 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 established a Fascist dictatorship. His disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany led to Italy's defeat in World War II. A democratic republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 and economic revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC). It has been at the forefront of European economic and political unification, joining the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include illegal immigration, organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, sluggish economic growth, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the prosperous north.
May 15th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo i will be using this journal again for my travels to italy starting June 18th. I thought about going with wordpress, because it's easier, but I'm too lazy to set up another account.
So far, I wi ... [full story]
April 28th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo things are falling apart here.
i'm so unmotivated. people are disappointing me.
time to go back to italy. NOW.
take me back to the homeland of olive oil, amazing music, opera, good food, well dr ... [full story]
April 19th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo Wow. Yesterday was Firenze (thatās Florence) and today my neck is sore as hell from looking up at all the incredible sights. I went with my godfather Jim Fantuz, and Colleen, (with whom I am staying) ... [full story]
March 17th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo more italy mess!
I'm leavin the States ( THANK YOU JESUS!) on June 18th. I'm going early to go chill with peeps, like Francesca and ADA friends, and then traveling somewhere along the western coas ... [full story]
January 24th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo So I haven't really written in a while but I've just been getting busy with school and travelling and crappy internet and the like. But here I am to tell you of my travels!! So last week I just had sc ... [full story]
January 13th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo Here I am, fairly settled in and all that good stuff.
Friday was the first day of our long weekend, we decided not to go anywhere cause it was our first weekend and it would be good to get out barri ... [full story]
January 10th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo '
So here is the shortened version of the entry that I lost:
Sunday: Our last full day in Rome, we went to the Pantheon and made some dinner. WAY too much pasta! had to throw a bunch out. Went to be ... [full story]
January 9th 2008Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Arezzo I just wanna say I wrote oiut a really really big entry and it no joke took me an hour and it was really goo and then the internet screwed up and it got deleted!!! So i'll try and find some more time ... [full story]
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