Benito

Florence Day 2

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August 28th 2008
After a quick breakfast we made our way to the office of One World Apartments. The huge wooden front door was open this time so in we went, up the stairs read the plaques on the wall but none that indicated One World. Back tracked to outside and rang the bell a lady answered and they were there just under a different name. A guy on the footpath shouted out to us "Just up the stairs on the right an ... 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