Lake Luzern

Milan is crazy, Italy is great

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September 26th 2009
It has been an intersting and busy couple of days. Friday we got up and checked out of our hotel in Luzern, then we went to the train station and dropped off our bags. We took a boat ride around Lake Luzern to a little town called Weggis. It was really nice but the fog cut down on the views for sure. We could barely see the mountains at all. Weggis was pretty cool but there wasn't much going ... 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