The theme of the chocolate festival

Perugia Chocolate Festival!

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October 17th 2009
A last minute trip was to Perugia. We just took the train from Florence, it was about 2 hours or so, not too bad. It was a very pretty train ride too so it went by fast. Once we got there, we had to follow a tour group because we had to take a bus and there were about 5 different routes that they were going so we just tagged along. After we got off the bus, it was quite a walk to the actual festiv ... 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