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Getting spoiled in Gemona del Friuli, Italy

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June 18th 2007
On Sunday morning we picked up a rental car in Vienna and started our road trip. Our first stop was just over the border in Gemona del Friuli, Italy, where my friend Monica from Monterey lives. The drive took about four and a half hours and included some incredible scenery (as well as more than a few tunnels as we drove through the Alps). Gemona is a small city near the Austrian and Slovenian ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia » Gemona del Friuli

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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