Duomo - different side

Onto Florence

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April 11th 2006
We put on our packs and went to catch the train to Florence (a last minute decision instead of going straight to Rome). We made new friends on the train – John and Mimi, who are from America but studying in England. When we arrived they offered for us to go to their hotel in hope that we could get a spare room, so we followed them (well they didn’t know where they were going and we had the ... 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