The Last Supper

Made it to Siena

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May 28th 2006
I made a mistake on my last entry, and neglected to publish it. So I could see it, but nobody else could. Well, Nancy and I thoroughly enjoyed our REI trip, which ended yesterday. Now we've moved on to Siena (or Sienna, in English). We'll be here through Tuesday morning, and then move on to Orvieto. September is the time of the Palio, the big bare-back horse race around the piazza. But t ... 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