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Cinque Terre, Florence and Roma

September 22nd 2006
Day 10 & 11 Manarola Cinque Terre Of all the places I didn’t want it to rain it was the cinque terre. And what do ya know, it poured!!! Cinque Terre stands for the ‘five lands’ five small traditional fishing villages just south of Genoa on the northern Italian coast. They are Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso. I had chosen to stay in Manarola and booked a bed and br ... 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

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