The Baptistry

Day Four (Tuesday)

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June 27th 2006
On our previous stay at the Hotel Palazzo Vecchio we were given a beautiful room on the ground floor. I remember the air conditioner being almost too cold. This year with me being in a single room and having a gigantic suitcase I of course had a room three flights up. Worst of all, it had no a/c. Well, it had a unit but it basically just blew in th ... 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