View from Castle Grounds

Dinner in a Castle

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July 15th 2005
Last Thursday our professors took us to a nearby town for a formal dinner...in a genuine castle! We were required to take etiquette lessons beforehand and to follow all the rules. Many of us felt a little silly, but we really did enjoy having a nice dinner all together. It was a good time, and the view was beautiful. Afterward, nearly all the students headed to Epoca for the evening where w ... 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