Italy 82 - our last Italian adventure, a castle, a shopping mall and a walk on the terraces
September 27th 2014 First task of the day sorted . We had bought our tickets for the tram the day before in Bergamo and we had watched the trams go by so worked out roughly their times. As we were parked a few hundred yards away we could see them rumbling in and out of the station .
We walked the few hundred yards to the tram stop and within minutes it turned up. It took us right to the heart of the railway statio
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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 
