Tuscan life

Tuscany!

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November 18th 2007
Ciao tutti! Sorry for the hiatus, I've been out and about being a world traveler, you know how it is. haha. But now you get to hear about my amazing weekend in Tuscany! Saturday morning we left for a program-wide field trip to Tuscany, starting in Siena. After a 4.5 hour bus ride, we got a full tour of Siena and saw all the sights of the very medieval town. The highlight was the sunset over ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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