View from the top of the Duomo

Reunions and such

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July 8th 2010
Got into Florence right on time last night, about 7 p.m. Texted one of the tour organisers to find out whether my choir was still at dinner - they were just finishing up, so I waited for them at the hotel. They staggered in, slowly, jet-lagged and tired (they only got into Italy yesterday... after travelling for 20 hours or so). They greeted me, and the vast majority promptly went off to bed. ... 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