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“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy” Fanny Burney

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July 18th 2006
Trento I decided to go to Trento as a bit of a last minute decision. Justin and Barry were going to Florence for a few days but I had already been there 2 years ago so I wanted to do something different. I read through my Lonely Planet on the train to Locarno and when I read that there was good hiking in the Dolomites I thought that that would be a cool alternative. Something very different to ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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