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La Befana

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January 6th 2007
Geo: 45.5138, 11.4546Today was the festival of the 'Befana', a witch who comes on the eve of the 6th of January and fill children's stockings with coal or lollies- depending on their behaviour in the past year. I've been good the last year and I also received a stocking full of treats! In the next town there were celebrating the festival, so dad, his cousin Genesio and I walked t ... 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