Visiting Florence’s Hometown Boys- Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Ferme, Dante
June 11th 2010 Florence, Italy. Although there were a great many things to see in Rome, we are so happy to leave the big city and find ourselves two train hours north in lovely Florence-we don’t miss all the traffic and mobs of people at all!!! We got off the train and dragged our bags about a half mile to the Piazza della Indipendenza to the Hotel Caravaggio. (Thank you Claudia for the referral) The sidewa
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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 
