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Ciao from Venice

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May 31st 2007
Well it’s been a very eventful few days, let’s see where shall we start . . . On Monday we traveled from Florence to the Cinque Terre; it was a lot of fun, mostly because we had some funny experiences . . . First, we were trying to catch an 11 o’clock train so we had to check out around 9:30. Just as we finished checking out the bus trundles by, stops, and leaves with out us . . . We had a ... 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