Tram/Trolley

A Different Day

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March 18th 2014
Time is going quickly. This Saturday we will have been here 4 weeks. That means we only have 2 weekends left to visit the sights we want to see while we are here. Tomorrow, Thursday, we will go to Pizza, Friday we will visit the Accademia Museum in Florence and Saturday a trip to Lucca a town about an hour from Florence. Lucca is a fortress city with an intact city wall, is not a popular tourist a ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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