Lake Cumo

Day 1-3 Lake Como

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June 17th 2011
Day 1-2 The Flight! What can you say about a 20 hr day of travel? I guess all you can say is that we all survived and we made it to Milan. Milan was great. We arrived to overcast skies and temps only in the low 80s. We first went to the Castle Sforza, a complex that was used for various purposes since the 1200s. We then took a nice city walk down to the Cathedral. The Milan Duomo is some ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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