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Santa Maria delle Grazie  
   

Santa Maria delle Grazie

The church that was a monastery where Leonardo da Vinci painted Upper Room fresco.
Milano

June 5th 2010
Where did I leave off? Oh yes, we are on our way to Milan. We have a week's worth of dirty clothes and tomorrow we see Leonardo's Upper Room fresco. Buff Googled the address of Hotel Mokinba the night before, so should be easy. Famous last words. How appropriate - last supper, last words. As we get to Milan, we seem to travel right on around it to a town called Legnano. Last - there' ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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