Florence through a Duomo window

12 hours in Florence

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January 31st 2005
Firenze, for all the Italians out there, is a great city. I am here just for the day, I will leave for Pisa just after midnight and then catch a night train to Nice, France around 3am. BTW they won't let me have a bed so I will have to sleep sitting up, argh!! I wandered around the city, sat in a piaza for lunch enjoying the warmth of the sun. I had brought snow with me from Austria to Munic ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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