The Beach in Monterosso!

Italy Day Two

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May 2nd 2007
So, Day two started at 6:30am...because we had an 8:10am train to catch to the main attraction of our trip...The Cinque Terre. A little background...Cinque...Italian for five, Terre...Italian for land. So, literally The Five Lands. And though there is an awful lot of really beautiful land in the area the actual Cinque Terre is five towns. Five "fishing" towns as they're called but anymore t ... 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