the cathedral with the long name

Contiki Part Two

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October 11th 2009
The Contiki adventure continues with Italy. We left Nice early one morning, and our desination was Pisa, where we would stay one night. However, on the way to Pisa we stopped to explore the Cinque Terre (the Five villages, or something). This was one of my favourite places on the Contiki trip - I finally felt like we were seeing the Mediterranean that I wanted to see (rather than all these big ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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