Erica and I splitting a glass of hot wine

Christmas market

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December 9th 2008
Being in Florence for the past three and a half months, I have noticed that the Florentines are huge on fairs and markets. This month is a twenty day long Christmas market. It's in Piazza Santa Croce and there are rows of different goods and food from different places around the world. A large part of the market is German and so there were hot dogs and other salamis from Germany. There was a chees ... 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