Leaning Tower of Bologna

Bologna

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June 19th 2008
Hot and hungry we headed off on a bus into Bologna to find ourselves a bolognese, forgetting that restaurants close between 3 and 7. We tried in vain to find ourselves some food, grumpily i followed cat down road after road after road after road ... looking for a trattoria, biting my tongue so as not to start our first argument. Beer set me in a much better mood. Thats about all we have to say for ... read more

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna

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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