Me and Cinque Terre

Last Installment of Cinque Terre

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October 25th 2008
Sorry this is so behind! But I actually have been busy, promise! This will be my last entry for the Cinque Terre weekend that was the first weekend of October. My last day, Sunday, I decided to get up early and hike to the top of the mountain where Rio Maggiore was. I had been looking up at it all weekend and had been looking up at a church on the top of the hill. I kept thinking how awesome th ... 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