Florence..............

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September 13th 2008
Next day and another adventure, to Florence. What can you say about Florence ? We thought we would let the pictures tell the story. You can't see enough of this place in a week, let alone the one day we had to explore it. We did queue for an hour for the statue of David at Galleria dell'Accademia, and of course 'no photos', but we weren't disappointed with the world's most famous sculpture in t ... 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