Duomo Square

Florence

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March 12th 2010
(Friday March 12) We made it out of San G! HUGE thank you to Grazia, Bruno, Nina and everyone at Torracia di Chiusi for making our stay very cozy despite the weather. It is such a great place -- the people are great and Bruno's food is amazing! We left the farm yesterday and headed to Florence. No snow in Florence but it is FREEZING here. The locals tell us it's very unusual weather for this t ... read more

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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