Bologna Old City from the hill of San Luca

Setting up house in Bologna

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September 17th 2012
Dear Max and Dominic, It was a little bit sad to leave Barcelona at the end of last week - it meant the end of our holiday and the start of work again, and I ended up enjoying living in Barcelona very much. At the start I was a bit nervous because I was worried about stories I had heard that there are lots of thieves in that city, especially in the area we were living in, but in the end I thoug ... 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