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Bellagio - Our First Italian Town - Sensational!

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September 29th 2014
Geo: 45.9877, 9.26198After a wonderful business class flight, via Dubai, we finally landed in Milan, Italy just after 2.00pm.After collecting our luggage, we found our chauffeur driver waiting and set off for the hour long ride to Bellagio on Lake Como.The drive from the airport to Como town was dull and uninteresting. From Como town however, it became spectacular. A single road runs along ... 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