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Five Villages and a (Possible) Funeral in Cinque Terre

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September 4th 2006
Matt: One of the most important lessons my mother ever taught me as a child was to be persistent: if I didn’t succeed at something at first, I should try again until I did. It’s not without irony then that this valuable advice should come back to bite my mother as I launched a second attempt at wiping her out, this time in Italy. My reattempt started with the familiar Friday afternoon dash ... read more

Europe » Italy » Liguria » Cinque Terre

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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