Piazza della Signoria

Chianti & Florence Day 20 to 22

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April 2nd 2011
Day 20 Today we gave the benches another coat of oil and then set to work painting one of the vine canopies. Quite a messy job and not easy to paint the wood rather than the vines growing all over it, but we did a couple of hours and have almost finished the first section (there are three big canopies in the property) Late afternoon saw another rainstorm heading our way and Jaime took some inc ... 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