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Five Cities, Two Days, One Free Dinner

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November 11th 2008
So this past weekend I went on a field trip. We went to Arezzo, Assisi, Urbino, Sansepolcro, and Monterchi. I don't think I've ever been this physically exhausted in my life. Arezzo was pretty. It was the town used to film "Life is Beautiful". We went to churches, chapels, churches, an artists house.....churches. We did get to see an archeological exhibit that one of my professors worked on. It wa ... 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