Recommended by a friend 03 Eating and drinking

Recommended by a friend

---

August 12th 2006
Geo: 43.2158, 11.7963For the next few nights I am staying at a hostel in a small Tuscan town that was recommended to me by a friend I met a month ago- thanks B! So this morning I said goodbye to Florence and caught the train to Certaldo. The hostel was doing a pick-up from the station in two hours, instead of waiting I decided to make my own way to the hostel. It was too far to walk, so in the p ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Certaldo

---

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