Chilling out 09 Looking up

Chilling out

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August 14th 2006
Geo: 43.2158, 11.7963Had a deserved sleep in this morning. At 11 Charlotte and I got dropped off in town. We walked to the ticket office and bought a return ticket for the funicular. The funicular goes from the piazza to the top of the hill where the old medieval town of Certaldo is. The ride was short, but saved our legs. The old town of Certaldo is surrounding by a city wall. From up here we h ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Certaldo

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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