View of Firenze

What a View!!!!

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July 11th 2010
Ms. Conner and I took a loooooooooong walk from our amazing apartment all the way across the Arno river to the Plaza of Michelangelo. Ms. Conner needed to do some work for her MFA program so I joined her. I took the two pictures here from near the top of the "hike". We actually walked further up the hill to a Church than most tourists do. There, while, Ms. Conner was taking pictures, I managed to ... 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