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Trieste, Italy

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July 8th 2007
July 5, 2006 Yesterday we slept in at the Jolly hotel in Trieste. We had breakfast and it was another beautiful sunny day. Jon loves the cappuccino in Italy. We shopped all day. Trieste is not really a tourist destination but it is in Italy so they still have shopping all round the main Utica Square. Jon found some Etro shorts and some cool tan leather Italian shoes. I found 2 Galliano dresses a ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia » Trieste

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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