Street Market in Florence

Florence and Home

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April 27th 2015
Sadly, today we packed up our bags and said good bye to the Villa. We gave our cook Hanna a big hug, loaded the van and departed for Florence, where we planned to drop the rental car, visit the statue of “David,” and walk the city before catching our fast train to Milan at 5:00 p.m. A couple of blocks from the rental return, we stopped at a self-service gas station to fill the tank. We say � ... 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