"Uliveto"

Our lovely little villa in northern Tuscany for 10 days. As we are out in the countryside we hired a car and plan to visit Pisa, Lucca and possibly Sienna from here. Our AirBNB host, Giorgio, has been quite amazing; he drove us from the train station to the car rental and has been giving us daily samples of typical Tuscan food.

Florence and Tuscany

March 20th 2018
Fast train from Naples (the first place so far we were glad to be out of) to Florence or Firenze. There we set ourselves a hectic schedule as we only had 2 full days, barely able to dent the surface of all Florence has to offer. Largely as a result of the Medici family (both loved and hated here, could be referred to as Italy’s first Mafia family) many great talents like Michelangelo, Da Vin ... 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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