The village of Vernazza

Cinque Terra - Italy

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July 17th 2007
On the Tuesday we caught the train from Florence to Cinque Terra on the Italian coast. Cinque Terra literally means 5 towns so it is 5 little fishing villages each perched on the edge of a clifftop. Originally each village was only accessible by boat and then train but now they have built roads as well so according to the Italians it has lost a bit of its charm - and it certainly has. We were ther ... 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