"Art" on a church

Chocolate festivals and Sunday evening discussions

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October 28th 2008
On Friday I visited Perugia for the annual Chocolate festival with Olivia and Jasmine. We had a great day in spite of spending about 6 hours on trains. Perugia was nice, although I am finding that the more I visit other Italian towns and cities, the more fiercely loyal to Bologna I feel. Possibly because without exception, everytime I have left Bologna, I have had some sort of allergic reaction (a ... 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