Leaning Tower of Pisa

Pisa and Lucca

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April 26th 2015
Today we took a long drive through the Tuscan countryside, from our Villa to Pisa, and then to Lucca. The road we took (which has the unlikely name of “Li-Pi-Fi”) winds along the ridgelines, valleys and riversides of Tuscany. Beautiful! At one point we got behind a very slow moving car that had traffic backed up for miles. Unfortunately, the road was so narrow that with oncoming traffic ther ... 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