A walk into Pratolino for Pranzo... and a number of thoughts and images of Firenze
March 27th 2008 Today Tim and I walked from the estate into Pratolino - probably a couple of kilometers in, but the real challenge is that you take your life in your hands walking along any road in Italy! The drivers… OMG. Anyway, we had an awesome lunch at the Zocchi Ristorante, which is really the only joint in town and guess what? It's been here since like the 1600's... no joke! You walk in from the front an
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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 
