Venice sunset

Florence & Venice

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February 20th 2008
Florence has been great. We got here by train from Cinque Terre and made it to our hostel on a local bus that evening. I couldn't believe how many people fit on that bus. It was like that game to stuff people in a VW bug but on a much larger scale. Luckily Heather asked the bus driver to tell us our stop, to which he grunted to either mean "okay" or "whatever". But he gave us another grunt ha ... 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