Florence

Florence

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May 19th 2011
The next stop on our Euro Trip is Florence. We were already behind schedule because the train we were planning on taking at 10:45am was booked. Instead we got a ticket for 11:15. We chill for a bit on the floor in the middle of the train station waiting for the gate number to appear on the boards. We see Gate 11 pop up and head to the train. When we get on the train, we see that there is a gro ... 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