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Florence - Day 8

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May 3rd 2016
Sorry for the late post, we didn't have any internet! We are still alive!!! Anyway this morning we got up really early to catch the train to Florence. The hotel staff said it would take about 10-15mins to get from the hotel to the train..... but we found out you would have to be sprinting with no luggage to actually make it in that time! So we almost missed the train this morning based on that inf ... 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