Syd and the mountain

Day 14 - Monte Carlo to Riva Del Garda

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July 24th 2012
Day 14 - La Torbie, France via Monte Carlo, Monaco, to Riva Del Garda, Italy Today was a grand day. We had breakfast at the wonderful hotel we stayed at last night. I should have mentioned that this was a hotel that Napoleon stayed at when he was in the area. Napoleon had good taste clearly. The breakfast was if you can believe it, even better than the dinner the night before. We were treated t ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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