Michaelangelo's David

Fabulous Florence

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April 10th 2006
Next stop on the bus trip was the beautiful city of Florence. We stopped on the way in at Piazza Michaelangelo to get a group shot overlooking the city, dominated by the massive Duomo building at the Ponte Vecchio bridge, an old wooden bridge the contains little inbuilt shops. Once in Florence, we headed straight to Museum Academia to check out the world famou ... 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