Coming up the Stairs

Pisa: BEWARE OF LEANING TOWERS

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March 9th 2009
Hello all! The start of my winter break began with Pisa. Ben and I (along with two other IAU) students boarded a bus to Pisa/Florence at 10pm Thursday night (Feb. 26th). The bus trip lasted all night, and we arrived in Pisa at 6:45am. Not knowing where we were going, Ben and I debated between walking and riding the bus. In the end, we got bus tickets, but due to mass confusion with the direct ... 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