Tuscan landscape

What a day (a bag snatching experience)

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June 25th 2003
As we started our five day trip to Northern Italy as a class today, a lot of things were happening this morning, even before we got out of Rome. Rome Arrived in the Piramide Metro around 8:10 am, we were joining our classmates across the pyramid, waiting on our tour bus that would pick us up at 8:30. Romans were doing their daily routines; streets started to get busy with cars and ... 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