Courtyard

One view of the courtyard in Siena where they run the annual horse race, the Palio, in which each of the neighborhoods sponsors a horse and a rider

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A little background info

June 25th 2007
Upon our arrival to Italy, we walked into the relatively small airport in Florence and made our way through the intense security check (a german shepherd sniffed our bags as we walked through an unguarded gate, no stamp on my brand new passport sadly). We were lost, confused, and three hours late thanks to missing our connecting flight from Paris. After several calls to people who worked with our ... 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

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