View back down the hill from the Monastery

Cinque Terre May 2009

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July 10th 2009
Mum and Dad arrived to stay with us for 6 weeks in May and I spent the preceding month getting very excited about all the travel we could do. I had a long weekend toward the end of May and so we decided it was an ideal time to head up to the Cinque Terre (translation - the 5 lands). I had not heard of the Cinque Terre region prior to arriving but it is one of Italy's most beautiful coastal areas a ... 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