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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 establi... [read more]
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 establi... [read more] Blog: Rome
Date: May 25th 2004
We drove down throught Italy to Pereto, a small mountain town outside of Rome. The drive was really amazing. We drove through the Alps, then through fields of olives, and then by Florence. We didn't actually stop in Florence, but we could see the city from the Autostrada. We also saw the Prada factory!! Pereto is beautiful!!!! It is what you would think of as a typical Italian town. It ... read more
Date: May 25th 2004
We drove down throught Italy to Pereto, a small mountain town outside of Rome. The drive was really amazing. We drove through the Alps, then through fields of olives, and then by Florence. We didn't actually stop in Florence, but we could see the city from the Autostrada. We also saw the Prada factory!! Pereto is beautiful!!!! It is what you would think of as a typical Italian town. It ... read more
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."-Mark Twain
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page" -St. Augustine
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