First Day in Tuscania Photo 5

First Day in Tuscania

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August 26th 2011
After sleeping for a full 10 hours we woke up to a breakfast of croissants, yogurt, granola, and fruit. Apparently for breakfast Italians usually only eat either a croissant or a pastry and a TINY cup of espresso. Luckily, the hotel provides us with American coffee or else we wouldn't even be able to find it in Tuscania! We arrived at the school at 9am for our first Italian lesson and found o ... 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