Duomo

Fashionable Milan

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June 28th 2008
Sat 14th June - Sunday 15th June We arrived in Milan about 7pm. It was a nice trip from Geneva with the scenery been particularly spectacular. Despite our hotel (Hotel New York) been 200m from the Main Train Station it was still pretty hard to find, but we found it. Once settled in we had a look around and found that around the area it was a bit scungy, we also had our first meal of Pasta and P ... 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