Cinque Terre Superhighway

Watch Your Step in the Cinque Terre

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May 1st 2009
Four hours of intercity train travel from Rome - the magnificence and vagaries of the Italian rail system warrant a posting in their own right but I shall desist other than to say that the UN should give up on world peace and direct its energies to making the man and his little refreshment cart with its bicycle bell a mandatory onboard feature of train travel everywhere in the world - and an 8 m ... 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