Basilica di San Francesco

When in Siena...

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November 28th 2011
It is hard to believe that almost 23 years have passed since I walked the streets of this beautiful medieval city as an exchange student taking a summer course, Renaissance Drama. Not much has changed; in fact, I am using the same map that I used when I was first here. I had forgotten how beautiful Siena is and I have pinched myself so often that I’ve begun to ask others to start doing it for me ... 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