indiya holding the tower up

Pisa/Florence

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September 27th 2009
Pisa/Florence We started our car trip from Volterra to Pisa. When we arrived there we went to find the Leaning Tower of Pisa! but it took almost half a hour to find it. I was so surprised, I thought it would it so much bigger! Jarah and I pretended to hold up the tower. After that we headed to Florence, which is in Tuscany. We checked in at our hotel called Hotel Royal and then wandered ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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