Hill top view

The sights and sounds of Desenzano

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March 20th 2009
The first three days of our holiday was jam packed with Lazy touristic things to do, which we were keen to change! We had decided to spend one night in the town of Desenzano del Garda. This was highly contrasting to our days in Milan as everyone was even more relaxed than the people we’d met in Milan! This was down to Desenzano being a lake town, which naturally combined with the sunshine prom ... 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