The streets of Orta San Giulio

Orta San Giulio, Italy

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June 7th 2010
We arrived in Orta a couple of days prior to our friends Allison and Paul’s wedding. We stayed at Hotel Santa Caterina, which is a fantastic hotel with modern clean rooms and a ’snack corner’ which we made great use of :-) It was a lovely ten minute stroll alongside the beautiful lake Orta into the Piazza Mario Motta, the main square of Orta San Giulio. The atmosphere of the medieval tow ... 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