Florence: If it doesn't rain, it pours... soaking your pants to the knees
February 22nd 2006 Happy George Washington's Birthday! Now on with the blog!
As soon as we stepped out of the station in Florence (or Firenze) I liked it better than Rome. It was dark and there weren't that many people around, but there was a nice piazza in front of the station and a church across the street. We walked right past the Luna Rosa, but we eventually found it and we had a nice room with a TV and DV
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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 
