Bargello courtyard

Rains of Florence, but the clouds are opening up...

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April 16th 2005
Planned to go to Pisa today. Woke up at 10 to the gentle sound of rain on my roof. I open the shutters and peer at the steady sheet of drizzle. Just what I thought. Back to bed. This seems to be happening every Saturday I decide to break from my sleepy, dreamy rest. Well, I'm up. And I've got an entire day ahead, and a working umbrella. THE BARGELLO An hour later, however, I dec ... 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