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Day 9 - Verona

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October 18th 2013
Another hazy start to another balmy day. Roy and I decided to take a push bike into town - such fun - it had been a large number of years since I had ridden a bike. It may have been a bad hair day but nothing could have ruined the wonderful day of the Hop On Hop Off and then back street walking experiences we had - Church of San Fermo, Castle Vecchio and bridge, Juliet's (Giulietta) balcony an ... 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