Piazza delle Signoria

Exploring/Getting Lost

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January 21st 2011
So throughout the past week I've gone out in the city each day to try and get to know Florence better. It will be my home for the next three and a half months and so I want to know it inside and out. Getting lost and then finding your way back home as proven to be the most efficient and enoyable way to figure out the city's layout. I tried sticking to a map, but everyone else was having more fun g ... 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