Selfie in Pisa

In Tuscany

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May 28th 2014
Day 11, Friday, May 23 (Before we start, in our last posting we misstated the date the house we are staying in was originally built. It was approximately 300 AD, not 700 AD.) The weather was not very good today with expected thunderstorms so we decided to stay in and read a book, Dan Brown’s Inferno. The story takes place mostly in Florence so it should give us an idea of what we w ... 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