turin6

not a shroud in sight

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August 21st 2011
Up very early and on the 2 hour train journey to Turin. Picked up a map and headed to the nearest stop for the hop on /hop off tourist bus, only to miss it by a couple of minutes as I was buying a bottle for water. As it turned out it was for the best as I followed the map to the municipal centre and came across a stunning square which I wouldn’t have been able to access via the bus tour. The Pi ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin

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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