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Cinque Terre & Lucca

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March 21st 2009
Its been a while since my last entry so enjoy this long post. So this past weekend I went on a IES funded field trip to a place called "Cinque Terre" and the medieval town Lucca. We hooped a train 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon noon and arrived in the town of La Spezia just east of "Cinque Terre" around 8:30. We settled into our nice hotel room and went out to dinner. The dinners the IE ... 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