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The only thing good about Firenze is the food

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August 26th 2011
A couple of train rides out of Cinque Terre, we arrived in Firenze… our first real Italian city. It was only up until our stay in Firenze that I had printed out Google maps from the train station to our hotels… and of course the tourist information office in the train station was closed for construction. We finally decided just to call the hotel (duh). The hotel turned out to only be a 3 min ... 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