The cathedral and baptistry from tower

Pisa

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April 30th 2010
Hi everyone. Well of course the best thing we saw in Pisa was the leaning tower! It wasn’t as tall as we had imagined but it certainly leaned. Richie climbed the tower (296 steps I think) with some of the contiki crew while Lysh enjoyed wandering around the touristy market stalls. Walking up was weird as you were thrown off balance from the bottom because all the steps were slanted and it was v ... 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