Florence

Day 14 Wednesday 28th December

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December 28th 2005
PLEASE BE PATIENT! Please be aware we do not have internet access in every location we visit. (We couldn’t access the web for four nights when we were in Rome and Venice). If the website is not updated each day, it is because we cannot access the web (we need wi fi). Mr George voluntarily spends more than an hour updating this site each day, kindly using his abilities with computers and photog ... 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