Entry to the La Scala theatre

Milan in the heat of Monday

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August 5th 2013
We decided last night before bedtime that we were going to up and about and on our way into Milan city centre before it got too hot like yesterday. Well that was th plan but it didn't quite work out that way because we slept so well that by the time we had got up and readied ourselves after breakfast it was already nearly 10am and the heat was building as we left the building to go down the ... 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