And so it started

Part 3 - Chianni, Pisa, Lucca

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March 13th 2010
I'm back in the land of the internet, having been starved of it for a few days. I have to keep all this stuff in my head till the next time I can catch up with a computer, but in the meantime so much is going on. We have spent a memorable week in Chianni, Tuscany in a house built about 600 years ago. It was small, but we had everything we needed - a kitchen living room, a bedroom and a bathroom - ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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