Mom's First Funicular

A Day Trip for Truffle Hunting - Orvieto

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February 2nd 2010
As a day trip from Rome, we wanted to show Mom the countryside and most importantly the impressive Cathedral in Orvieto. We knew it would be colder than our last visit in early September a few years ago, but we would deal. We rented a car for a day with a Never Lost navigational system, and, slowly, made our way out of the city. I was unsure if we chose shortest distance or shortest time, or mo ... 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