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Florence and The Five Villages

October 24th 2011
Florence Three things I couldn’t escape in Florence; rain, sickness and statues. I was in the vicinity of the famous ‘David’ and although my energy levels were low, I still managed to walk to the city’s highest view point <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Piazzale Michelangelo. Here I stood<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> side by side with Davi ... 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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