Casa San Gesu Carmine

Florence, Italy

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June 15th 2011
We've had a couple of busy, tiring days of traveling recently. We had to get from Barcelona, Spain to Forence, Italy, and we did it by train. Each day we tried to cram in both train travel and seeing a site on the way, but by the end we were pretty exhausted. We made it to Nice on the French Riviera late one afternoon and hopped a city bus to visit the Matisse Museum, which wasn't much ... 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