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Cinque Terre-Day 1

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August 27th 2011
This morning started with our first final exam of the year. We finished up our first course in a little over a week and it looks like I received an A. Great way to start off the semester! As a celebration of finishing our first course we were given the next few days off to travel where ever we pleased. A group of 11 us decided to go to Cinque Terre, Italy. Cinque Terre is a region of Italy tha ... 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