Old walls

Capri and onwards

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October 23rd 2006
This blog is getting a bit behind, we are about 3 towns to catch up so its probably getting disjointed. We are now in the beautiful little town in central Italy called Montecatini which is our jumpimg off point tomorrow for a day trip into Florence. More on that later. But now back to when we left Capri. We departed the Isle of capri early in the morning - the whole area enveloped in thick ... 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