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200611

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June 23rd 2011
Sunday 19th June Decided to drive to St Veran, still in the Queyras, as the weather forecast was looking good for the next couple of days. The village was really interesting with very old wooden buildings dating back to 1745 with either wooden or stone roofs. We took an eight hour walk up past the old copper mine to a col (the name escapes me) at 2,800m which overlooked the Col Agnel. It was ha ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy

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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