Basilica 3

Pisa!

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January 29th 2011
We went to the trainstation first thing in the morning to catch the bus, and the most striking thing was track number 16. Our guide Marcello informed us that Fascist Italy shipped off dozens of Jews to concentration camps and they never made it out alive. Track 16 was where the train departed with Italians for the Death Camp, and every year they remember the sins of the government and the lives lo ... 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