Requisite Ponte Vecchio photo

Florence

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March 23rd 2008
I really loved Florence after having visited Rome and Venice only over the last few years (and you all know how fun my last trip to Rome was!). I just found the locals so much more hopsitable to tourists. In Venice even if you try to speak Italian, even if you frequent the same spots over and over over the span of several weeks (ahem!) they treat you like a born yesterdayer. In Florence people wer ... 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