Pont Del Vecchio

Bring on the Shopping

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October 6th 2007
Day 16 Saturday 6 October Bring on the Shopping Wake Up 6am Breakfast 6:30 Leave 7:30am It took us about 4 hours to get to Florence. We only had an Autogrill stop and pushed on. We stopped on the hill overlooking Florence for a group photo €10. This view was spectacular. They had a copy of the David there. We arrived in the historical centre. We went to the Gol ... 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