Tight squeeze in elevator

A Room With a View

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March 31st 2015
As we arrived to the Santa Maria Novella train station in Florence on Monday we looked for the Farmacia sign where we were to turn and go outside to follow directions to our apartment. As luck would have it there were two farmacias and we chose the wrong one. After a few minutes of confusion we headed in the other direction and soon were on the right track. Our apartment is in the most amazing loc ... 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