Florence

April 9th-11th – Florence

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April 11th 2009
We arrived in Florence at about 11am and the roads were chaotic! Dorothy routed us through the middle of the city and it was a mess traffic-wise. The road the campsite was on had no numbers so we had to put in the GPS coordinates so she could find it, which she eventually did about an hour after reaching the city. (I must highly recommend the Alan Rogers Camping and Caravanning Guide we bought w ... 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