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Kate in Italy

The Trek to San Miniato

April 16th 2009
Kate and I were in Florence, staying at the Pensione Bretagna, where Kate had lived for a year back in the day, when she was a twenty- something year old student in Gonzaga's Junior Year Abroad Program. Ah, Firenze. The Pensione Bretagna was a few steps away from the Arno River. From our window, if we leaned out and looked to the left, you might spy the most beautiful small bridge in the world, ... read more
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Italian Flag 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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