Ponte Vecchio

Room Without a View

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May 7th 2009
It's ironic that in our previous posts we've talked about the view from our accommodation while here in Florence, the city made famous by “Room with a View”, our current place really doesn't have a view. What we do have however is a big airy room, with tall windows and floods of natural light from a small inner courtyard and a window box filled with jolly red geraniums. And we also have as o ... 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