Uffizi- local entertainment

These people dress up in monotone clothing, painted skin, etc...and silently mock passers-by, or stand completly still for minutes or hours, depending on their ability, hoping for an audience, young or old, to fool or fool with.

Leveling out

September 26th 2004
Travelblog covering Wed-Sunday Sept 26th Realizing that I’ll soon be in a completely different environment living north of Florence center, I’ve been strolling through the streets checking out stores, reading my book in Piazza Republica, and generally taking it easy. Lorenzo (remember, the owner of my September apartment, with whose family I had dinner a few weeks ago, and who also found me a ... 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

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