Duomo (Cathedral)

Best location yet!

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August 20th 2005
On our bus trip today we stopped at a lovely place called Orvieto about three hours from Rome. We caught a cable car up the mountain to the main town and strolled through the streets up to the amazing Duomo (cathedral). We saw there was a wedding about to happen and Matt was impressed that the wedding car was a ferrari. We arrived in Florence about 2:30pm and headed to hotel Medici. We were ... 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