Baptistry, Leaning Tower

Piece of Pisa

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January 11th 2010
We're glad to be back in Europe, and Italy! But all I can think about is returning to my adopted home, Rome. Perhaps I'm anxious about arriving in the city that I fell in love with two years ago, perhaps I was grumpy because of all my Moroccan things I had to lug around, but I felt so-so about Pisa. All we really did after we landed was go to the tower, snap a few fun photos, and trudge painfully ... 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