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Italy

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September 14th 2006
Our arrival to Italy on the 15 hour Dubrovnik-Trieste "Bus of Doom" was followed by several connecting trains as we made our way from the east of Italy up to Tirano, several hours north of Milan and very close to the Swiss border. Tirano is a small town of perhaps 15,000 people, and of this population it appears that a large number are somehow related to Luke. We were to stay with his uncle, aunt ... 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