'There is no world without Verona walls..

but purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is the banished from the world and world's exile is death...'

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October 30th 2006
I made a day trip to Verona to see the setting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Once again I encountered delays on the train. I haven't had much luck here but as always, the destination proved to be worth the journey. Verona is very much Roman in architecture but also has its pink medieval buildings which I thought was pleasant visually. I saw most of the main sights from Piazza Bra (don't ... 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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