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Dining Out Tuscany

A warm welcome from our host
Chapter 4 - DAY 27 - Florence

October 3rd 2011
MICHAELANGELOS DAVID Day started with a walking tour of the city. Our first stop was the Academy Museum which houses the original statue of David by Michelangelo. It is a very small museum, we entered the first room where there were a number of paintings by ‘lesser known’ artists plus the Giambolonga’s famous sculpture Rape of the Sabine’s. It was a very dramatic scene, there is a real d ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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