Broken Legs broken leg

Toscana - food and locals

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October 29th 2008
24th Bologna - Pisa - Orciatico We decided to take the toll roads so we could get to Orciatico quickly. What the kids didn’t know was that we had organised four nights in an apartment in a small village in Tuscany. But instead of ending up in Orciatico we headed for Pisa - the leaning tower. Anton Pisa was busy. We were starving again - 2 o’clock and we still hadn’t had lunch (for the ... 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