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Finalmente, Sono in Italia!

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January 15th 2008
Ciao! I am in Italy now, my new home for the next few months. I am now enjoying a completely different lifestyle from that I've enjoyed to date. The weather is rather cold here (at least, colder than the typical subtropical regions that I'm used to)... something like 40s °F and single digits °C... che bello! It rains quite a bit and is rather foggy... but I actually like it. I'm living outside o ... 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