Vittorio Emanuele II

The land where the men speak Italian

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October 3rd 2006
So, after a long night of trying to sleep in a train, and not being totally sure if we were on the correct train, and of strange stoppings and random police boardings, fading in and out of sleep, and general lunacy, not to mention the entirely too recent memory of Oktoberfest on our minds, we woke up at around 0700 somewhere in the province of Lombardy, Italy. Our excitement, however, was short l ... 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