The chapel at Isola Madre

3 nights at Lake Maggiore

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September 9th 2011
Wed/Thursday – the start of 3 nights at Lake Maggiore Thanks for all your comments, we enjoyed reading them finally. After nearly missing out flight to Milan, even though we were at the airport 2 & ¾ hours before the flight time, somehow we were sitting one gate next to the one written on our boarding pass, and didn’t realise that the boarding gate had also been changed down one number, a ... 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