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Italy 7 - Pisa with its Leaning towers/ White wedding cakes

May 18th 2009
There are few sights that please the eye when looking from an airplane window than Venice and its lagoons and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We stayed near the small town of Collodi made famous through the adventures of Pinocchio writing by Carlo Collodi. Our home for the next two weeks was a small farmhouse high above the town reached by a long, narrow, winded and rutted limestone grey road. The view ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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