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Alps Museum

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December 31st 2006
Geo: 45.5787, 7.30228This morning my cousin Tiziano and his wife Simonetta took us for a drive towards to the Val d'Aosta region. This is a region near the French and Swiss border. There are heaps of castles here and alpine resorts. We visited the Fort of Bard, a castle that is built on a rock on a hill. It is now the Museum of the Alps. In the castle there were many multimedia displays hi-l ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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