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Pisa - Under the Tuscan Sun (but obscured by the Tuscan clouds and dampened by the Tuscan rain)

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May 30th 2008
A forecast of rain most of the day kept us from taking the 2 hour bus ride to Florence. Instead we opted for a quick 20 minute drive to Pisa - and we loved it. Great town, much smaller than we might have expected. The leaning tower was beautiful, not to mention very cool! In our first "it's a small world" moment of our trip, we ran into a woman from Nashville buying gelato in Pisa. Go figur ... 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