Heidi

At the Etruscan ruins

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April 12th 2005
I didn't die! Seriously though, we were probably climbing steadily for 20 minutes. I wasn't a wuss and biked the whole way, with a few stops for pictures. When we finally reached Fiesole, we found a museum and archaelogical site of Roman ruins on top of Etruscan ruins. We wandered through the museum and then had lunch overlooking the ruins, surrounded by flowers and cherry blossoms and the c ... 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

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