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Towards Naples via Parma,Siena,and Tivoli.

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July 5th 2016
As we told everybody before we left, there is not much time for travel blogs. But here we go again. From Parma we went to Siena. An amazing town and we were lucky. The Paleo was on that weekend. We were early at the hotel so enough time to walk to the city. Just two kilometres so not to bad. Only it was 36 degrees, that makes it a little harder. It was all the way up for the city is on top of a mo ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Siena

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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