The Cathedral

According to tradition, the Cathedral is the second remake of a primitive church of San Martino. The facade, which you can see here, is the result of a long remake that spanned the 12th through 15th centuries, and is still "unfinished". I read that in the last arch area, there is an inscription that reads "Guidetto da Como worked here in 1257"...!

Un Giro in Lucca

May 15th 2012
While I'm starting to get the bug bad for visting the rest of the country, on Tuesday I set off with my cousin Arianna to visit the local town of Lucca by foot and on bike. Lucca has, among its narrow, narrow streets, once protective walls, and many piazzas, famously 100 chaese, or churches. Its history goes back a long ways, as you can imagine, and I will get into the walls and some of the hi ... 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

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