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Day 5: Florence

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March 15th 2017
This morning we Decided to walk down to the Gallary Del Accademia and see some ancient art. Here we were pleasantly surprised to see that not only did this house many masterpieces but it also had a special 'music gallery' explaining all about different musical instruments of the 16-18th centuries. Then we visited the Leonardo Da Vinci museum and walked among many of his original invention and saw ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany

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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