Us at the leaning tower

Pisa

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September 17th 2007
Conveniently (and by accident) the place we were staying in Rome was located on the train line to Pisa which meant we did not have to go back to the main terminal station. There were no Eurostar trains on this line which meant no expensive supplements but also a train which stopped at a lot of stations. We were never intending to stay the night in Pisa so when we reached the station we looked ... 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