Cortona

Photos of Tuscany

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June 9th 2008
Ciao, we have made it to the Cinque Terre on the Ligurian Coast in Northern Italy. Bit of a wrong turn off the A1 at one stage but managed to make it back on, then got really lost in La Spezia quite a large port town where we had to return the car. There is no way we would have found Avis, all the streets were tiny narrow lanes and sure enough it was down one of those in a one way street which w ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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