Matera

Italy - roads, steps, cake and confusion

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July 4th 2017
Ahh Italy…you are so beautiful, but so bewildering! We said goodbye to Croatia in an unceremonial way on the overnight ferry from Dubrovnik to Puglia, Italy. It was a tub that had seen better days and looked more like a one star hotel with religious reliquaries in glass cases at reception – not really the kind of thing which encourages confidence in your voyage. Sitting with a wate ... read more

Europe » Italy » Campania

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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