Enjoying Tuscany

Amazing Florence

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August 14th 2010
After another long day of travel to Brussels, in planes and trains via Milan, I arrived in Florence, a place that I had been to before but somewhere that I knew I had to come back to, to explore further. I had already seen many of the ‘must sees’ in Florence on my previous trip, so chose to spend my time people watching and absorbing the Italian atmosphere. Food seems to becoming quite a hig ... 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