A little Italian in all of us

Florence

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November 19th 2007
Florence... We basically just did the tourist thing here....visiting the churches and galleries and eating overpriced (but delicious) food. If you book a cheap hotel room in Florence, don't believe the 'breakfast included' part. Ours was a coffee straight from a machine, a drinking box of orange juice and a twinkie. Fine Italian cuisine.... The best part of Florence was borrowing the ho ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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