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Bagno Vignoni to Rignano Sull’Arno

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June 14th 2016
Today we said goodbye to our Southern Tuscan Villa and headed north planning to visit Siena for a few hours. We reached Siena in good time but the place was just so busy with cars park very where the decision was made to move on to Pontassieve which we arrived at as a very heavy rain passed over. We finally located the town centre as the rain stopped. After a great lunch we head for our Conigliera ... 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