Statues

Firenze, part 2.

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April 2nd 2008
Okey dokes, where were we? This blog writing is quite laborious... So we were in Florence and pleasantly didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn! First things first, we were off for our group photo which after finding a market set up where they wanted to take a pic, we ended up in the Piazza near the fake David. Now, for those of you who have no idea what I am going on about, David is a sta ... 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