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My very long journey ended with being in ITALY!!!

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July 5th 2009
My breath was taken away when I got in to Italy first thing I noticed about Pisa on my bus trip to Florence was SUN FLOWERS, fields and fields of sun flowers. Then there was also the mountains, the buildings and the crazy Italian drivers. When I got to Florence main station I then jumped on another bus to go to my hostel. This was the scariest bus ride I had ever been on. The driver was driving ex ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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