Siena

April 11th-13th – Siena

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April 13th 2009
Check-out was at 10am and there was a queue waiting to leave. It was another beautiful day and we were on the road again without too much delay heading south to Siena. It was only about 80km, so we thought we would take a short detour to a little town called SanGimignano with it’s ‘14 grey stone towers set on a hilltop and surrounded by an outer wall’. Unfortunately a few thousand other tour ... 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