gates of paradise

Firenze!!

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January 21st 2008
Leather Leather Leather! Firenze was sooo pretty. A picture is worth a thousand words but there aren’t enough pictures in the world to describe how pretty Florence is. I don’t know how people live there all the time without just constantly looking up at how beautiful everything is. How do they ever get anything done? We got to Florence at around 6 and we went to our hostel It was about 2 mi ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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