The Grapevine Express

Day 8 - Lucca to Corniglia, Cinque Terre

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June 16th 2011
We left the hostel in Lucca early enough to walk to the train station and be plenty early. Our first train, to Viareggio, left and arrived on time. When a train pulled in on the track for our train to La Spezia, just a few minutes early, we hopped on. After we'd traveled a bit, the conductor came by for our tickets and after checking told us we were on the wrong train! It was going to the ... 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