Lugano

Four countries in Three days...

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October 14th 2008
Ciao, mi amici e famigli. I again I'm horrible at putting up blogs straight away, so you get to (or have to) hear about my last two weekends in Rome. Two weekends ago Jim and Peggy Lueck came to Italy to visit Alison who is in Parma at a culinary institute. I was invited along, so the plan was for me to hop on a train up to Parma, meet up with Ali, and then together take a train up to Milan, w ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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