Castelvecchio

Art, Music and THAT Balcony

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August 24th 2008
THURSDAY, 21 AUGUST I am waiting in the BA queue at Gatwick when a voice behind me says, "Hello, I'm Michael." Before I have a chance to say something really witty like "So?", I turn around and see that the man behind me also has a Martin Randall badge on his bag. Thank God, I think to myself. For once I kept my mouth shut and won't have to spend the next four days apologising to one of my 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