Montepulciano

Yay! Running water! (oh, and Tuscan hilltown...)

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June 15th 2010
Geo: 43.0929, 11.7824For me, today is all about the fact that the water came back on! How wonderful is the sound of running water! How simple is the pleasure in hearing the quiet hum of a washing machine (we were running out of clothes – and Emma de R, it turns out it was lucky that I packed so much! The smell of that washing, once I got the frontloading machine open and found it had been ... 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