PISA

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

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November 4th 2007
Saturday morning we woke up tired from the day in Venice before but excited to go to Pisa! We walked to Café Liberta and ate lots of food and cappuccinos then caught our train to Pisa. Pisa is a beautiful city with a big shopping street and the Arno flowing through it. There was a market that we went to full of artists showing their goods. It had a lot of crafty things like signs, jewelry, le ... 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