campanile

florence

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August 10th 2007
well off we went to florence with chris...and it was nice ...but it was like being in disney land of italy....like a museum all the time with more people than this city could handle....we saw the statue of david and all the other florence buildings....see pics.....we did and open tour bus here too...and it was amazing too..... ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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