Cope walking the hills

Oh No….So Ends 21 Days in Pienza

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May 6th 2016
Oh No….So Ends 21 Days in Pienza Can it be true? Are we really leaving for England tomorrow? No, it can’t be; we haven’t finished seeing and doing everything we wanted to do. We thought we had so much time-3 weeks. Ah well, it must mean we need to return to Italy ;-). We have had a fabulous time in Pienza. We were here for the Spring Festival, the Festival of the Flowers and the May 1, Lab ... 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