La Dolce Vita

Adventures in the Cinque Terre

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May 29th 2007
Started the day off heading up to the largest and most "resorty" of the five villages, Monterosso. We walked around the town and bit, had some gelato, and took the hopped the train back to Riomaggiore, or at least we thought we were. It was a direct train back to La Spezia which took us zipping past Riomaggiore and ten minutes later we were dumped off in La Spezia. So we had to wait 45 minutes fo ... 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