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Parma to Venice

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June 20th 2016
Oh what a fantastic day. This will rate as one of the best days, we started the day watching the production of 11 wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano at the artisan family cheese factory of San Pier Damian (DOC registration 3333) what a wonderful 2 hours watching the cheese maker pull the cheese out of the copper cauldrons, seeing the salting process, visiting the aging storage room and learning how the ... 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