Cathedrale

Seeing the City...Kind of

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April 6th 2010
April 6 was our day to see Palermo, which turned out to be mildly disappointing. The bus we took into town stopped at about 20 more stops than it had the night before, so it took us about an hour to get into town, and then the main museum we had been planning on seeing was closed for renovations. We then tried to go in some churches that we had written down from our guidebooks, but they were also ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sicily » Palermo

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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