Looking up from the bottom of the well.

Orvieto With Friends

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September 16th 2012
Our friends, Sam and Phil, arrived a couple of days ago for a 3-week trip through Italy, bypassing Rome. We had made arrangements prior to the trip to meet up on Sunday in Orvieto, in Umbria. We hopped on a train again at Rome Termini and in just over an hour, we arrived in Orvieto. Sam and Phil were staying near Assisi, and drove the hour to meet us. The train station is at the bottom of a ... 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