Neetz main square Pisa

Goodbye to Italy

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June 4th 2007
On the 25th May we headed for Florence. Florence was beautiful on our first day, then the weather turned bad and unfortunately we got stuck in the rain at a muddy campsite. We did however venture out to Pisa to check out the Leaning Tower, which Tezz thought would be bigger! Anyway back to Florence where I stared at the buttocks on the fake statue of David (Gab you would have loved it), and shopp ... 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