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The First Landmark We Saw

The Opera House--ie where we got off the 101 bus to climb in a taxi


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Italian  Flag 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]
Blog: Palermo Bound
Date: April 5th 2010

Monday, April 5 Allison and I got up for our breakfast by our innkeeper. (We allowed plenty of time considering how long it took him to warm up my coffee on the stove yesterday—of course it was worth the wait.) Another family had arrived the previous day, so there was actually someone else in the breakfast room when we went down, and our innkeeper brought us a basket with four rolls in it this t ... read more


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