Central Europe 2 4 travellers

Central Europe 2

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May 23rd 2006
Still on that whirlwind, but winding down a little here in Firenze, Italy. It's been a mixed couple of weeks... from Augsburg Jon and I had a wierd ill-fated day out in downtown Schongau. Never heard of it ? Well Jon thought he had and we took a 3 hr local train ride over 70 km to a town it turned out no-one had really heard of, the train stopping 15 minutes at every second station. It was amu ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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