Lucca Bells

Day 24 - July 7 - San Giminano and a luxurious suprise

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July 7th 2010
We awoke the next morning and enjoyed a fabulous breakfast at the B&B - egg, cheese, meats, buns, fruit, all delivered in the breakfast room by a charming Italian “mamma” who you could tell just loved her life and loved serving breakfast to her guests. We planned to spend the morning in Lucca, so we started walking around some more.. We played a game trying to find a street without a single ... 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