Firenze-Santa Maria del Fiore 2

Week 4: Siena & Florence

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February 24th 2008
Awesome weekend! Friday morning, all 60 of us met in the Tiz lobby at 6am to board the busses to Siena. Let's just say, I don't know anyone that's a morning person. We arrived in Siena, a city in the province of Tuscany, around 10am, and we walked to our first stop: la Basilica di San Domenico. I was not impressed at all with the Basilica; it is very plain, but it does have a relic of St. Catherin ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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