San Gimignano and Siena Photo 8

San Gimignano and Siena

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January 7th 2009
Monday Jan. 5th our next visitors arrived safely in Bologna! My (Kristi's) cousins Josh and Ashley started their travels in London and went to Madrid, Barcelona, Rome and Florence before coming to see us in Bologna. They were quite tired from all of their travels and stays in hostels so we had a dinner at "Hotel Kopacz", relaxed and went for a little walk around Bologna. We woke up early on ... 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