In Monterosso

Day 106

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May 9th 2007
Happy Birthday Mommy!! Except my mother is on a cruise, but that’s okay I’m in Cinque Terre! Today was fun, exhausting, but fun. We hiked 2 of the 4 trails, the 2 more difficult ones. There was awhile that I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it all the way, but I did. It was amazing looking back at the villages below us, and seeing how far we had come. Jess ended up not coming because she ... 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