florence

Florence

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June 4th 2007
I am staying at a hotel just 15mins outside of the city of Florence. The Hotel Concorde. We arrived last night, and my sister and I got on a bus almost immediately to get into the city. We both ate calzones and watched street performers in one of the squares. It was neat, and we then met up with Ramy, Fransico and JP to try to figure out how to get back to the hotel...that took a while. Today wa ... 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