The mountain-top monastry at Assissi

Day 10 Saturday 24th December

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December 24th 2005
On route to Rome today, we stopped at an Italian Café for morning tea where we had coffee and snacks and bought a fresh sandwich for lunch. We later stopped at Assisi where we viewed the church of Frances of Assisi. We also had time to explore this medieval historical village which overlooked the Italian countryside. Unfortunately, we couldn’t enjoy the view due to the fog. Tonight we had a b ... 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