Hello Livorno

Leaving Corsica

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June 3rd 2011
03 June 2011 We drove the 20k to the port of Bastia and caught the lunchtime ferry back to Livorno on mainland Italy to end our superb month long journey around Sardinia and Corsica. The boat arrived at 6.30 after a four hour trip and we were able to stop the night in a very convenient facility right in the port about 200m from where we got off. We had previously read that the food in Livo ... 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