Montage 4

I shall call you Francesca!

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December 13th 2005
Thusly, we were greeted by men in Florence (once we finally got there - see The Great Train Debacle for further clarification). We have absolutely no idea what they were trying to achieve by calling us 'Francesca', but it certainly didn't work. It was in Florence that we first came into contact with something that Italy should be known for - the street market seller. At first we thought we could h ... 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