Siena street

Trains are cool

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January 16th 2006
We started the day right this time. Woke up early (still only 3 hours of sleep...I think this might be a jet lag record ) and had breakfast, stopped at only one shoe store for, guess what, boots on our way to the train station to catch a late afternoon train to Siena. Siena was recommended to us by several peeps and my Loney Planet guide. It was a very short trip, but we enjoyed the scenery and to ... 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