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Milano - The first taste of Italia!!

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July 12th 2011
Milano was a bit of a disaster from the get go! We arrived after a pretty long train ride and after leaving the train station and walking 20 minutes to our hotel, we finally got to where we would be staying at 8pm. We wandered into the hotel to find a deserted reception. After calling out a few times for someone, a man wandered down and said the reception was upstairs! So I carried 2 suitcases up ... 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