Piazza del Campo from the winning contrada

Bareback horse races and leaning towers of Pizza

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August 18th 2006
Hello from Italia! Italy sure has been having a fun year, eh?(sorry, been hanging around with Canadians) They hosted the Olympics and won the World Cup. Maybe I should have come here earlier. Meh, anyways, I flew to Milan from Seville on Tuesday and went straight to Siena to meet up with Shael, a Canadian dude I met during San Fermin, and to experience Il Palio. Siena is divided into 17 distr ... 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