The Val D'Orcia from the walk by the church

Loose Ends- Tuscany

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April 27th 2016
Dateline Pienza, Italy. Loose Ends So as we live our life here in Pienza there are things we forget to talk about… Like the lovely ladies we met while sitting out on the Piazza having a cappuccino. They were girlfriends traveling together. One was from London, one from Belfast, another from Edinburgh and the fourth from Manchester. They were here for a long week end for the Primavera Fes ... 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