Monument to Dante, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy

Adventures in Italy: Day 5 Florence, Chianciano

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April 10th 2017
Italy Day 5, Saturday, October 8, Florence We left Chianciano with the rising sun casting warm orange colors over the cloud covered valley. As we headed north in the light rain and intermittent fog more mountains appeared and the heavy clouds dispersed showing us the beautiful landscape in the Provence of Chianti. (The movie Miracle at St Anna, set in 1944 Italy was filmed in Ch ... 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