Some Friendly Locals

Montorosso al Mere..... continued

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June 19th 2012
Tuesday 19th June 2012 – Monterosso al Mere Today, after a leisurely breakfast, we caught the ferry from Monterosso to Riomaggiore – a 40 minute trip to the southern-most town of the five towns that make up the Cinque Terre<span> (five towns) .<span> Along the way, we stopped at 3 others of the townships (the middle town doesn’t have a mooring for the ... 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