A Beautiful Drive from Innsbruck to San Vigilio and Day One in St. Vigil
January 15th 2010 Though it would have been nice to get a full night's sleep, instead, I slept for about two hours before I started waking up almost every half hour. I had to be up by 4:30 because of the early flight to Innsbruck, so I think I was subconsciously worried about sleeping too late. I finally got up about 3:30 and puttered around until I had to get ready. I STILL had the migraine, so I had a coke whi
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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 
