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STRESA OR BUST

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March 17th 2011
September 2009 A MINI TRAVELOGUE by Brian William Carter CHAPTER ONE I’m not sure whose idea it was. My wife, Janet, mentioned that as it was our fifth wedding anniversary in September, it would be nice to revisit our honeymoon destination of Stresa on Lago Maggiore in north-west Italy. Well that set the old mental wheels whirring into action, and I reviewed my imaginary list of th ... 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