Purse vendors waiting for the police to leave

Florence Part 2

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March 10th 2007
Florence Oct. 21- 24, 2006 Saturday We woke up at 5am to leave San Gimignano and Tuscany for Florence where we would drop John and Pam at the train station. We got lost in the maze of Florentine streets before finally finding the train station, afterwards going to return the car to Europcar. We arrived at Europcar’s office at 7:45am and although Europcar didn’t open until 8 we were lu ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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