Soccer and Culture

Italy - Lucca and Riomaggiore on Cinque Terre

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October 5th 2010
We travelled by train to Lucca which is a walled city north of Rome. It’s only tiny - about 800m by 1.2km and the perimeter is about 4km. Our apartment was big with 5 rooms and it overlooked Piazza Napoleone. This is really big and I could practise my soccer skills out there. I had to buy a ball so that I didn’t drive mum and dad crazy. They said I had cabin fever. The wall of the city ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Lucca

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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