Lucca's Torre Guinigi

European Adventure 2013

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October 14th 2013
A real breather for all you readers today...as you can see in the one photo taken from our window, black clouds surround the Torre Guinigi and it rained in Lucca for most of the day, making most expeditions impossible. To add to the depressing weather it was also Monday, meaning that places like museums where you could normally spend some time indoors were closed. Tourists wandered the streets in ... 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