Yet Another Tourist

There were rather a lot in Florence

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July 5th 2010
An Italian man we met told us that Florence was beautiful, but little, quite little. He was a Roman of course and a very nice man who had shifted out of Rome proper because it was too much, just too much. Well we can tell you that Florence may indeed by little by European standards - probably not quite the current size of Australia's national capital - but this is a beautiful and very liveable c ... 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

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