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Day 24 - July 6 - Lucca

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July 6th 2010
We got a later start than expected. We ate breakfast on the terrace, finishing all of our supplies, and rested for a bit, then picked up final paninis at Il Forno for our lunch. All this leisure resulted in missing the last train I had carefully planned our potential routes around. though I had carefully planned the shortest route to Lucca, all of the plans fell apart and we ended up waiting half ... 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