Torre de Asgnelli

Arrival in Bologna

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May 20th 2007
We are in Bologna. When we travel we like to get to know an area so we are using Bologna as our home base for a week while we take a couple of trips into the nearby cities. We hope to get a pretty good feel for Bologna and start to get a feel for Emilia-Romagna. The trip over was quite smooth. We drove to Montreal and took off from Dorval to Amsterdam and although we’ll have a wait at the borde ... read more

Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Bologna

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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