The main square Piazza Maggiore

Bologna

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June 4th 2011
04 June 2011 We want to spend the next few days of the trip visiting some of the towns and cities in Northern Italy we didn’t have time to see on our last trip to this country so we drove 200k north west to Bologna and found an excellent camp site in the outskirts with good bus connections into the historic centre. Bologna turned out to be most attractive and well preserved with many splen ... 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