Our First Home Cooked Meal

Finally settled in!!!

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September 3rd 2007
So we finally made it to Italy!!! Our apartment is AMAZING!! It is literally 10 steps from the main college building and only a few streets from the rest. We spent our first week sight seeing alot! Florence is amazing. Every day we see something different. We took sylvia's mom to Rome before her week here was up. We planned to leave early in the morning and come back late at night, but as it ... 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