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A Day in Florence

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April 8th 2014
After having our breakfast on the terrace overlooking Florence, we caught the No. 4 bus down to the city. Lynn and Mike have pre-purchased tickets for a number of museums. Ruth would join them at the Gallery of the Academy to gawk at David. Ruth and I strolled the city taking in a couple gardens <span>at Palazzo Pitti (the Bardini garden was the better, but not a botanical garden that we typ ... 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