Hail in Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre

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September 29th 2007
So, we arrived in Pisa, Italy (no we did not see the leaning tower, to my dismay.... ok Pippa claims to have seen it from the plane window.... i don't believe it) on September 26th, took a train and a bus to Biassa... 10 minutes outside of the first of five villages that make up Cinque Terre. We found ourselves cold, wet, and hungry, sitting outside the hostel (it wasn't open, yet) tucked away ... 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