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Frascati

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September 2nd 2005
Che bella e Frascati! When in Rome do as the Romans do and spend the weekend in Frascati away from the city centre. Frascati is a great little city in the Castelli Romani area renown for its vino bianco (white wine) that can be sampled at the many Fraschetta’s in the centre where you bring the food and buy the wine by carafe. Usually about 1-2 euro a litre may also get half, or quarter li ... 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