Boats in harbour

Another Seaside paradise

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February 4th 2016
Stopped again for a thankful few days: in La Spezia. Whilst we love the location of our accommodation we are not so enamoured with the crazy traffic and busyness of these 'small' cities by local standards. After taking some beautiful seaside photos of la spezia this morning, we escaped to Portovenere, the first of the cinque Terre national park towns but not one of the famous five. Of course the l ... 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