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Southern Italy and Rome

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June 28th 2008
Wow we havent written in so long and we've now done so much! As we said on the last entry, we spent some time in Puglia, starting in Vieste. This is a beach type resort on the east coast of Italy, and no one speaks English - at all! So our Italian has improved drastically! We stayed at a really cool hotel called Rocca Sul Mare, which was situated in the oldest building in Vieste. The street it ... read more

Europe » Italy » Apulia » Peschici

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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