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Cinque Terre to Florence

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April 7th 2014
How can you go on your first trip to Tuscany and not see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We wanted Lynn and Mike to take it in. So after saying good-bye to the gorgeous coast we headed south to Pisa...and are we glad that we did. They have done an amazing restoration to the buildings and the grounds. The buildings colors were fully displayed in the sun lit day...not the dirty, dingy grey I remember fro ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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