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The Sea Was Angry That Day ...

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April 18th 2015
Today was our last full day in Cinque Terre and we had planned to take the ferry between the five villages and photograph them from the sea. The Sea ... however ... had different ideas. It was storming and raining and we were told the ferry would be unable to dock at the villages. Maybe next trip. So once again we hopped on the train ... this time to Corniglia, the only Cinque Terre villa ... 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