Eating pizza and bruscetta

Florence - history lesson

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July 14th 2005
We spent the day in Florence which was a real lesson in history. I admit I didn't know a great deal about Florence before we came, but there is so much amazing history to the city. There's also a ton of naked men everywhere, unfortunately they're all made of stone and many have missing limbs. We started at a leather factory where they explained about Italian leather, very interesting, just a b ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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