Leaning Tower of Pisa at night

Italy Trip

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October 15th 2006
We’re back from Italy now. It was a really fun trip, but more of a traveling/sightseeing trip than a relaxing vacation because we were in cities for most of the trip and there was so much to see. Lindsay and I were saying to each other on this trip that one of the most exciting things about Italy is that there are things there that are so famous that we’ve known about them since we were lit ... 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