Kate from Siena

Metropolitan Chaos and $300 meals

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October 19th 2005
I made it back to London, A-OK. After 8 hours of travel from Florence to Pisa to London, I slept like a babe. Too much too tell about Siena, Florence, and Pisa, three rather famous cities with many blaring similarities. Siena, I've written about already, but a retrospective and reflective side of me knows its too cool to skip over. Such a relaxing city for Italian standards. Its much like Flo ... 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