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Relocating 0km

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September 16th 2017
I'm writing this as a very tired traveller, having gotten up before dawn prior to spending over 6 hours on trains going up one side of Italy and down the other. Concerned about the possibility of sleeping in and missing the train, I was up before the alarm (and sun) at 5:45 (actually I was up several times during the night before that) and at the hotel desk at 6:00 to collect our breakfast bag bef ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Riotorto

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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