View from the Town Quay to the Monument

built in 1933 for those killed in WWI & those at sea

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An Overnight Passage From Crotone and our time in Brindisi, Italy - (with some time in a boatyard!) June 22 - July 7, 2019

July 7th 2019
I forgot to mention in the last blog entry that soon after getting to the anchorage in Crotone we both got our suits on and jumped in the water – it was such a hot day I thought the water would be cold at first, but there wasn’t any shock at all – it was lovely and did its job of cooling us down. How lovely to be able to do that here! We decided we could leave a little later the next morni ... 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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