Royal Quarters at Antica Dimora

A Nostalgic Return Journey

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August 10th 2015
Straight from lunch with my Slovak family in Bratislava we had to get on the road and head for our last B & B of the trip in Bergamo! For any reading this that may not know, Bergamo is the city in northern Italy (about an hour east of Milan) where I lived for my junior year in high school. When we originally plotted our course and I saw that one of google’s suggested routes went right by Bergamo ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Bergamo

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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