Leaning Tower of Pisa

Florence and the Leaning Tower

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May 27th 2007
Trip So FarMatthew Feben Hey everyone. Going to keep this one nice and short as Florence is hardly a place that I could spend all day talking about. After a relatively comfortable train ride in from Pompei and a 20 minute bus ride from the station I found my way to the hostel. It was a really nice old villa that was situated o ... 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