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Florence and the Machine

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October 17th 2013
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6th October From the Grand Canal to Venice St Lucia station, and we alight another high tech silver bullet to Florence Santa Maria Novella. Just a short taxi ride and we are checking in at Hotel Pitti Palace. The Pitti Palace or more correctly ‘Palazzo Pitti’ is where the Medicis and the Habsburgs lived. Or in more detail (than ... 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