Ponte Vecchio

Florence

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October 15th 2008
You'd think after getting so many trains on my trip I'd be fairly good at it by now. I caught the train from Interlaken to Spiez okay, which took about 20 minutes. The next train was from Spiez to Milan, which I also caught okay. The only problem was that I got on at the wrong end of the train. When you reserve a ticket, the carriage number is printed on the ticket. At the station, there are ... 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