Monaco, Race Weekend

France to Italy

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May 27th 2007
May 25 - May 27 Monaco - Genova, Italy - Cinque Terra It was the great big race weekend in Monaco, so of course we had to go check it out! We thought the Friday morning would be good because the crowds wouldn’t have formed yet. So we took the train from Menton into Monte Carlo, Monaco which didn’t take all that long. As soon as we got out of the train station we could hear the engines of ra ... 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