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This is it for Italy - The David and bound for Munich

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September 25th 2007
We are back in Florence after our morning in San Gimignano. I continue to have trouble calculating the Military time clock. I shorted us some valuable hours in San Gimi by not calculating the time correctly. I was so worried about making the bus on time, so it was okay. We had only a small window of time to catch buses to be back in Florence in time for our reservation at the Accademia. We also h ... 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