Santa Croce

Firenza - Part II

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May 6th 2010
We definitely had to return here as we missed seeing David in the Academia when we were on the tour. Luckily for us we stayed very close to where we stayed on the tour, so it didn’t take too long to get oriented. Our room was great and cheap, the man behind the counter let us upgrade for free which was nice, we don’t really like sharing bathrooms anyways! We hit the streets for dinner and i ... 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