Charming Narni

The chronicles of Narni

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May 28th 2012
Mini day trip to Narni today. Narni used to be known as Narnia, and about a century ago a young man named Clive Staples Lewis saw it in his atlas and thought it would make a pretty good name for a magical kingdom. The real Narni is almost as enchanting. Part of it is medieval, and they've certainly striven to maintain that if-she-weighs-more-than-a-duck-she's-made-of-wood-and-therefore-a-w ... 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