Birth of Venus

Last Day in Florence

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July 17th 2014
Today was our last day in Florence. We went to the Uffizi Gallery. The Uffizi Gallery is where thousands of famous art works are by the great master painters and sculptres. I saw the famous painting by Boticelli called The Birth of Venus. We also went to Museo Galileo. Galileo was a great scientist who first said that the earth goes around the sun not the sun goes around the earth. Because in thos ... 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