Lunch stop near Portofino

Off to the backblocks of Genoa

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October 25th 2009
Sunday October 25th Off to the backblocks of Genoa Another cracker of a day has dawned and with the extra hour in bed we are feeling pretty refreshed after two days of walking in the Cinque Terre. After breakfast we took a walk up the road from the hotel to the hilltop village.There were only two locals up and about and the woman we passed didn’t return our cheery ‘bonjurno’.However the man ... read more

Europe » Italy » Liguria » Genoa

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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