Casa Isabel

Sanctuary in Toscana

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September 10th 2008
We too the back roads to licciana Nardi to our home for the next five nights. I feel like a school kid that's just got his license a week ago. These Italian drives are MAD ! And our little electronic saviour, our GPS is not much use on the rural back roads, mind you we did see alot of Liguria . It was a great relief to reach the sanctuary of Casa Isabel. The 'little' pink house on the corner ... 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