Main Piazza, Cremona

Two Very Hot Weeks in Lombardy—Cremona and Bergamo

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September 1st 2017
My first ACLE camp of the year was two weeks in Cremona. I’d never heard of it, but when I researched it, what came up is that it’s about an hour and a half southeast of Milan and that it’s most famous for violin making. In fact, it was Stradivari(us)’s hometown. While there, I learned artisans and some tourists still flock there to see violin production in action, and others move there fr ... 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