Castle, Milan

Viva Italia (Part 2)

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July 29th 2010
Turin I ended up having 3 different couchsurfers for my 3 nights in Turin, so it was a bit manic and I ended up spending quite a bit on baggage storage at the train station! My first host was Amor, a Spanish lady with two sweet little girls called Alice and Gaia. I thought I would be staying with her the whole time but when I arrived she told me it could only be for one night! How annoying! But s ... 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