Elisabetta and I

Buona Pasqua! (Happy Easter)

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March 31st 2008
I just had to fill everyone in on my experience of Easter in Italy. The night before Easter I attended the midnight mass at Siena’s Duomo. The inside of the Duomo is probably the most outstanding building I’ve ever stepped foot in; the walls are constructed of solely black and white marble stacked one on top of the other and the floor is also covered in pink, black, and white marble depicting ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Siena

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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