Lake Como, Menaggio

Week 2

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May 31st 2007
Hey everyone, Its been one week since our last confession...blog...I mean blog. It is our last day in the Cinque Terre town of Monterosso. According to our original itinerary, we should be headed to Tuscany somewhere, but somehow this sleepy little town sucked us in and we ended up staying for an extra two nights. And we still managed to do practically nothing but walk around and sit at the 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