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Galleria dell'Accademia and Chianti/Siena Wine Tour

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August 9th 2014
I feel like every day I wake up thinking that the day cannot get any better than the previous one and somehow it ends up surpassing all of my expectations. We started out with a reserved appointment for the Accademia, which is the best way to go about entering this museum because without it you can wait upwards of two hours to get in. There are numerous amazing artists housed here and the works ra ... 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