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Up the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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May 8th 2013
So this is us Mr and Mrs Summers at the top of the tower, 294 steps up! What a view! We are really enjoying the beautiful countryside - so green - and rolling hills with the roads following the gradient - up and down and up and down and sat nav's tracking showing bend after bend! Trees everywhere - deciduous and olive trees and vines - the Chianti region! The guest house is a 14th century vill ... 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