Italian transportation

Beautiful Firenze! (Florence)

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September 19th 2005
So after our night train, we arrived in beautiful Florence. Most of us slept pretty well, but Joe woke up once to the train just sitting silently on the tracks, and I think that was a little creepy. Often trains will split with some cars going one place with the engine and leave the others to be picked up by another train, and I think that's what happened to us. It's definitely much more import ... 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