Biscotti!

Florence!

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March 21st 2011
Tuesday Nov. 16 Today we actually got an early start (well, relatively speaking, for Italy) so we could make the day-trip to Florence, about a 90 minute drive away. We decided to drive to a bus stop outside Florence and park-and-ride into the city to save ourselves the trouble of city driving and parking. Stopped at a delightful Pasticceria in Certaldo on the way there where we picked up a vari ... 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