walking past me, glittering and bold and such energy!

Florence filled with feathers-The Bersaglia

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May 22nd 2005
This past weekend, along with being the culminating point for a week-long celebration of creativity, invention and science in Fiorentine Geniu, also hosted a Notte Bianca, with all the stores and piazza's open until the wee hours of the night. I've never seen my city so filled and active. Spaghetti supper in Santa Croce, Irish music in Santa Spirito. It's midnight and I'm pooped. What an old lad ... 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