Garden delights

Italy in a week

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September 26th 2009
The tour of Italy has flown, it is a memory packed week of historic sites and history of the clever Romans dating back to the 5th Century, when it all came ot a sad end with the attacks of outsiders to the empire. Wars and interactions with the neighbouring Germanic and Balkan civilizations is reported to have resuted in a down fall of the Empire. Highlights were the Trevi fountain, Roman rui ... read more

Europe » Italy » Liguria

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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