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Florecnce

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May 5th 2012
Hi everyone, We are enjoying our last day in Florence wondering around and still finding things to see. We went to Lucca yesterday for a few hours in the afternoon. It is a lovely medieval walled town. The walls are still intact which is quite unusual for these very old towns. We walked around the top of the wall which is a wide street (4.5km). We came out lo the town a different way and end ... 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