the main door of the duomo

A weekend in Milan / Christie comes to visit!

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October 7th 2007
Ciao! So this weekend we actually stayed in Milan for once, because I had one of my best friends from Georgetown coming to visit me (Christie), Katie and Michelle had 3 friends from school coming to visit them, and Steph had one friend from school visiting her. So we stayed in the city to show them a good time. Friday I picked Christie up at the train station and we went to do a little sigh ... 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