leaning tower of pisa

run down of florence

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August 22nd 2006
Florence had been the favourite city of many passerby backpackers so I guess we were eager to see what the fuzz was about. It was a short 2 hour journey from Rome but at this point in time we had really had it with being nomads..living out of our backpacks, packing and repacking and lugging the damn thing around! We cabbed it down to our accomodation - Leonardo's hostel where we were welcomed b ... 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