Manarola

5 Beautiful Sisters

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September 11th 2009
August 31, 2009 - Cinque Terre, Italy What a difference a day makes. We go from crowded and dirty Viareggio up the Italian coast to the most beautiful part of the Riviera, The Cinque Terre. She is made up of 5 little villages overlooking the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean. We took the first bus we could from the campground to the train station at around 9:30 am, which was late for ... 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