Etruscan tombs

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Italy 94- Cerviteri - walking down the streets of the Dead, wild asparagus plants and a Brummy conversation

May 2nd 2015
You think we would have had enough of Etruscan history for a lifetime but close by Tarquinia is another necropolis this time of a different time period and shape of burial mound. Sally Sat Nav took us miles out of our way into the nearest town to the necropolis and we got stuck in a one way deviation due to a parade in town. There have been a number of these. Perhaps it is the equivalent of the ... 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

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