Lucca

Siena need we say more

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June 18th 2006
Happy Father's Day to all of our father's! We all wish you a wonderful day and we will do a toast to you at dinner tonight. We left Cinque Terre yesterday and took the train to Lucca. In Lucca we rented bikes and rode on a 6 A.D. wall around the city. It is amazing that we are seeing such old history. The city was beautiful. After we left Lucca we took the train back to Florence to catch 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