Lunchtime walk at Belano

Tuscany to Rome

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October 11th 2009
Sunday 11th October Tuscany to Rome Four nights have passed by very quickly here but now it’s time to move further south with the Amalfi coast our next ‘long’stay broken by a night at Sacrofano,just outside the ring road of Rome. We were up a bit earlier this morning than the previous days as we have over 230km to travel and as we are travelling on a local road rather than the motorway it mi ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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