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4 Nuns Walk into a Pizza Place...

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March 14th 2010
PISA Day 53 On my way to Roma I decided to make a two hour stop in Pisa to check out the leaning tower. It didn’t take long to get to the tower and the walk through the streets was nice with a lot of markets out. I arrived at the piazza to see the tower. It is really strange to actually see it and to see how much it is really lea ... 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