Florence – Firenze Photo 13

Florence – Firenze

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February 3rd 2010
Wednesday 3.2.210 day 112 Florence - Firenze We stayed here last night and then got up and ripped out the pages of our lonely planet book as there was so much to see and we did not want to take the whole book with us and headed straight to the piazza del Duomo it dominates the town the Santa Maria cathedral took 150 years to build. Brunellechi won a public completion to build the dome he was a g ... 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