View from our room

Cinque Terre

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September 23rd 2005
On Friday we gladly left our room behind in Rome to hop on train for the lovely towns known as Cinque Terre. These are 5 small towns on the Western coast of Italy nestled among cliffs along the shore. We took a bus to the train station then hopped on a 7:35 train to La Spezia and arrived at 11:52. We then took another train shortly after to the 5 towns known as Cinque Terre. There seemed to be ... 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