Statue of David

Our Second Day in Florence

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April 28th 2009
We had a long and tiring day discovering the cultural parts of Florence. In the morning we went on a great walk through the streets of Florence and heard about the beginning of the Renaissance. The walk finished up at the well-known Gothic cathedral, the Duomo. In the afternoon we pretended we were art history buffs and toured the Uffizi Gallery (great {?} collection of Italian Renaissance pain ... 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