SNB18364

Weekend

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March 29th 2009
It is now Sunday afternoon, rainy and wet. Yesterday was quite a day, for us girls (my roommates and I) wanted to get in a visit to the Uffizi museum before having to meet up with our CAPA group at 2:00 p.m. Were still all quite jet lagged so we all are usually up around the house by 6 a.m. and are ready and have had breakfast by 7:30. So as you can assume, yesterday morning we left the house aro ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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