Florence at night

Italy

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October 19th 2007
We have just left Italy and are writing this blog in Athens. We were on our way to the Acropolis but is is bucketing down outside! Italy was a mixed bag for us. The roads were rubbish (well coming from Germany anyway) and the driving was bad, although not as bad as we had expected. Still the road rules hardly apply, if you need to get across a road you go and hope someone will stop! We also fou ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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