Bologna

Italy (August)

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January 28th 2008
After living in a campground in Rotterdam for a couple of weeks we finally secured a room in Delft where I was going to be studying, so we packed our things and flew to Italy for a week. We arrived in Pisa and set up our tent worried about the large amount of rain that they had just had as our tent was not waterproof at all. We then wandered the city of Pisa and its monuments and fell in lov ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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