Florence

Under the Tuscan Sun

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April 6th 2008
We woke up around 8:00am, finished packing up, got breakfast at the hotel, and then said a sad goodbye to Venice. We boarded the water taxi to get back to the train station, and then headed to Florence. We got lucky and were able to board the train without waiting, and arrived into Florence around 1:20pm. From there it was a little bit of a hike down unpaved roads with our luggage, and I ended ... 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