Ermano and family

Bagni di Lucca

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December 4th 2007
My parents (Big Mike and Rosie to everyone here now) came in for a week in November '07. I don't know how we survived the week, every night another dinner and another bottomless bottle of wine...At the end of the trip we headed up to Bagni di Lucca to say hi to some of our cousins and catch up a little bit. ... 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