Santa Croce

Cinque Terre

---

September 28th 2011
What an exciting couple of days we had this past weekend in Italy! On Friday we were luckily able to sleep in and we wandered over to our favorite sandwich place, The Oil Shoppe, and then met up with our friend Alyssa to visit the Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti Palace. We brought bread and cheese with us and expected to be able to relax in one of the few grassy areas in Florence. With our museum ... read more

Europe » Italy

---

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