View of Brunelleschi's Dome from the Bell Tower

A Day for the Attractions of Florence

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October 9th 2014
Geo: 43.7793, 11.2463Our day started with the included Italian style breakfast. Lots of very sweet food – cakes, cereal with chocolate, sweet pastries, sugared croissants and so on. Fortunately there were delicious hams and cheeses as well as very good cappuccino.We then set out to Piazza del Duomo. We decided not to climb the dome of the cathedral itself, but rather to climb Giotto&# ... 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