Getting Ready

Orvieto and Spoleto and Other Things that Don't Rhyme

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November 12th 2008
I would like to start off this blog entry by saying "Thank you" to all you following my blog. I have recieved many wonderful messages of encouagement from you and am truly thankful. Please continue to keep reading and sending messages, I love hearing from all of you! Halloween came and went in Perugia without much notice. Halloween in Italy is not that big of a thing, but anything that somew ... read more

Europe » Italy » Umbria

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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