Siena 3

Day 5 - June 18 - Siena

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June 18th 2010
We slept in so late this day that by the time we got going, we wondered if it was worth going to Siena. This feeling was amplified when we got to the train station and, like the day before, could not find the bus stop. Luckily, we did find a tourist info booth. They pointed us to the bus stop, and the nice bus driver on the Siena bus held the bus an extra 3 minutes so we could buy our tickets. We ... 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