Milan

Milan

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August 3rd 2009
Milan is so amazing! The shops are fantastic, we spent hours looking around them! The buildings are amazing too. We had our first bit of rain but that's okay because it's still very hot. We thought we'd booked a dorm in a hostel but turns out it's another double with a balcony. It was very hot last night though and very loud outside with the traffic so with my cold I hardly slept. Managed to find ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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