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Tuscany via Genoa and Monte Carlo

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September 21st 2013
Our final big drive to Tuscany, with an overnight stay in Genoa, and a lunch time stopover in Monaco. Our accommodation, on the working vineyard of Quercecchio about 10km from Montalcino, provided a great base to tour Tuscany. Pisa, Siena, and Montalcino itself provided the best food and wine of the trip. Apart from the patissieieres and maybe the huge variety of produce in France, Italy' ... 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