Florence

Cram Trammin'

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June 10th 2013
Back again. (be sure to check more photos out of Cinque Terre below the end of this entry) So I'll pick up with Florence and Cinque Terre and see how far I get to being up to date. Last weekend as in Thursday May 30th - Monday June 3rd, was our planned excursion for Florence and then a couple open days to ourselves to go and do whatever we please. Florence was a nice getaway from Rome. I di ... 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