Santa Croce

Day 22: All Day in Florence

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July 12th 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Undiscovered Sights The guide book that says you have the city to yourself at night is wrong. People are out until midnight in Italy, and while it’s a festive atmosphere, you are not alone. At 7:30am, however, you really do have the streets and the sites to yourself. There was no crowd blocking my view of the baptistery’s bronze doors, or anyone gathered in the co ... 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