Santa Margherita

Le Cinque Terre

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April 26th 2008
So this past weekend I went to the Cinque Terre with my friend Adriana, aka Manhattan, one of the people that I met on my trip to Italy last summer. She is now studying in Paris, and we have never even seen each other in the US... but we love to travel Italy together. So we met up at Venice because she had never seen it before, and it is so close to me. We did the main sights, and she was going pi ... 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