The Duomo at Sunrise

Florence

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January 13th 2008
Grettings from Tuscany - Florence was excellent although my very first impressions of Florence were not very nice. The very first thing I saw was vagrant peeing on the sidewalk right out side the train station. Roughly five minutes after that I realized that one of my bunk mates on the train ripped off roughly 200 euro from me. So as I'm trying to get my head straight, I'm looking for a map of the ... 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