The Baptistery

Firenze, pt. 2

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September 27th 2009
Day 5: Today was very laid back. Didn't do much besides revisit neighboring attractions and hung about the numerous gathering spaces and piazzas. We went back to Piazza Signoria where there's a museum inside. It exhibited a lot of paintings and some sculptures but I must admit, although many of them are pretty impressive, I'm not a big fan. I think if I took the many art history classes th ... 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