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Italy 50 - a bit of a sad event and museum

May 18th 2013
We left our camping site early and hit the road as we headed off to the tiny town of Coriano the birthplace of the MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli who was killed at the Grand Prix of Malaysia in 2011. We had followed Marco for some years and it looked as if he was going to be the hope for the future as the Doctor Valentino Rossi was coming to the end of his MotoGP career. The accident had left a ... read more
Europe » Italy » Emilia-Romagna » Coriano

Italian Flag 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
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