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Italy

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August 20th 2011
<pre style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal; color:񬠜 font-size: 15px;">(I wrote this a while ago, just getting round to posting it now)</pre> I had never been to Italy before but it had always been high on my hit list because I love the food and have some Italian friends (and the wine isn't too bad either!). So Em and I got a last minute flight and the fir ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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