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Umbria... with the program

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March 7th 2008
so after a rainy start to a Friday morning, we slowly made our way to Umbria... a region in central Italy, and the only one that doesn't touch water! we went first to Perugia, which unfortunately, it was FREEZING cold and rainy... and at certain times, it was flurrying. We spent nearly the entire day inside of a museum, bored to tears looking at picture after picture of Mary with the Baby Jesus. T ... 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