Arezzo

Our last few days in Tuscany

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September 20th 2008
Two days before we left Italy we woke up to a rainy and miserable day. So after lazing about the apartment for a few hours we headed out in the car to have a look around Arezzo. It was a nice city but the rain didn't help much. We headed back to Cortona so I could do some interneting and Paige had another wonder around. By that time it was getting late so we bought some nice pasta and went home fo ... 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