Palermo Cathedral...from the outside

We should have taken the bus to Palermo

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April 14th 2013
Todays Gelato flavours - GMB - Bacio GLB - Chocolate(good old favourite for Gretchen!) Regret is great in hindsight as we were to find out today and we should have listened to ourselves and all the guide books we have read on driving in Palermo but.................... Sorry if this is getting a bit boring to anyone who might be reading this in NZ as a large weather system with rain approache ... 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