Duomo

Day 21: A Day of Fun

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July 11th 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011 Waking to the Bell Tower I warned my Brazilian roommate that I was setting my alarm for 7am, just so he’d know. The other two boys didn’t crawl in until the late hours of the night, so I am sure that my alarm was an unwelcome interruption in their sleep. But I was not the only one making noise. The bell tower chimed at seven o’clock also, but it was not just a mono ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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