With the Ponte Vecchio in the background

Florence, Pisa and the Cinque Terre

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May 2nd 2007
Florence, home to Dante, Michelangelo, the Medici family and for awhile DaVinci, it is gorgeous! And there is so much to do here and in the surroundings. I was here once before last summer, but I was working so I didn’t get to explore it how I would have liked! So I’m back. The place I had originally booked had a double booking, so I ended up in a B&B in the same building, and it worked out ... 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