Around Lucca

More entries from 3/11/06

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November 3rd 2006
03 Novembre 2006 Life here in Casatico is slow and pleasant. When we arrived the chestnuts were shedding their casings, and their leaves were changing hue. Within a fortnight, the annual shed is complete, and the leaves are falling. The Garfagnana in this area boasts huge and dense chestnut forests. At this time the ground is littered with chestnut casings, spilling the sweet chestnuts ... 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