Piazza del Duomo

Milan

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June 24th 2010
Milan We have arrived in Milan and we are staying at the Hotel Ariston. The hotel is nice. The rooms are small and the elevators are even smaller. But they have AC which I really like for sleeping. Internet is an additional cost and that is a little upsetting. There is a typical Italian hotel style breakfast; cured meat, cheese, fruit, croissants, cereal in Italian, juice, caffe americano an ... 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