Bronze doors of the Duomo baptistery

Our full day in Florence

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September 30th 2011
Sept 29: Our only full day in Florence. We headed out from the hotel and wandered through afew streets and the San Lorenzo leather market before arriving at the Duomo (the giant Cathedral in town). We had been going to visit the Duomo and the famous Brunelleschi’s Dome on the end of it, but there was already a line up so we decided to climb the church bell tower instead – the Campanille. ... 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