Sunflowers in Umbria

Friulano and Frico!

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July 5th 2012
Maria Chiara had been invited to two weddings in Italy two weeks apart from each other in the second half of June, with me as her Plus 1. What better excuse to escape the wettest British early summer in recorded history and get involved in the Italian heat wave! Maria Chiara comes from Udine in Friuli - it may be very Northern but it can still be hot; during these weeks Italians had to search ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia » Udine

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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