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Bella Italia Finale

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October 31st 2015
Day 5 Today we traveled across Italy from the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian sea. It was raining hard when we left at nine and we drove over and under the Apennines. It is fall now and while I missed the brilliant reds, the soft yellows, oranges and rust are interspersed with green pines. Here and there an olive grove clung to the hillside but this area is mainly national parkland. By he time ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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