pretty view of Florence

a nightmare called Florence

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May 5th 2008
My stay in Florence did not start in the best of ways. I arrived all excited to be settling into two months of living the high life in gorgeous Florence only to find myself homeless! I've never been homeless before and the stress of being stranded in a foreign country, where the only person I knew had just up and left to England for the week, was not a great experience. Luckily after 24 hrs of fra ... 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