Samples of art within the National Gallery of the Marche (Palazzo Ducale)

My first and the school's last trip-adventures in Urbino

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May 28th 2005
Saturday, May 28th URBINO 7:30am Piazza Adua Un Professore di storia dell’arte (Leoncini), una professoressa e noi in 9. We are in small bus, and begin our 3 hour viaggio to Urbino, in Marche. After the first hump, crawling in and through and around the Apenines, we then reach another set of roads…that are an endless snake curving this way and that…and I must close my eyes for ... 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