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Settignano and Sunsets

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October 5th 2007
We have been joking for some time now that we can't seem to get out of the apartment before 11 am. Which is kind of bad timing considering most places close between noon and one and don't open again until three or four. We have been getting better, I think the other day we were out about 10 - that's progress! Not that we have any pressing reason to be up early, it's just a little sad that we re ... 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