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Pisa and Lucca, Italy

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May 18th 2014
These photos are all in Pisa or Lucca Italy. The first 14 photos are of in Pisa and the next 8 are in Lucca. The ship docked at the port city of Livorno. To get to Pisa you have to take a series of bus and rail to get there. Rather than join the cruise ship tours, we ventured out on our own to Pisa and Lucca. We headed away from the ship, first by the shuttle bus into central Livor ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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