Crowd on the Ponte Vecchio

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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April 26th 2015
Donatello put on a huge spread of food for us to choose from for breakfast so we pigged out on fruit, cereal with yogurt and pastries. Well, we shared a pastry so we didn't pig out too much! Bernie had pre-purchased our ticket to visit the Uffizi Gallery so we walked straight from the B&B to the gallery to make our 9.30am timed entry. We exchanged our voucher for our tickets and then joined the ... 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