Torri del Benaco, Lake Garda

European Adventure 2013

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October 25th 2013
We had a very restful night after a long drive yesterday. The weather was quite pleasant so we picked up our bikes (provided free as part of our booking) and headed into the town which is only a few hundred metres away. There is a bike & pedestrian track along the lakeside and the streets in the old town are all car-free. We found a nice cafe by the lake and enjoyed a lunch in the intermittent sun ... 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