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Cinque Terre

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March 10th 2007
Cinque Terre October 24 - 27, 2006 Tuesday After checking out of our Florence hotel we went to the train station to get cash and eat McDonald’s before leaving for Cinque Terre. The train to La Spezia, the station that serves as the start of the rail line that connects the five villages of Cinque Terre, was noteworthy solely for the huge number of fashionable students who disembarked at P ... 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