The view of the city was even more breathtaking than I'd imagined. From up on the hill, I've never seen a more beautiful skyline

A day in Firenze

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September 25th 2014
Geo: 43.7687, 11.2569One of my favorite movies has long been "A Room with a View" from the novel by EM Forester. It stars an impossibly young Helena Bonham Carter as a British expat who falls in love in Florence. When we were in Italy in 1994, we never made it south of Siena so I had yet to see Florence.I checked online and found that a day trip there from Rome is pretty easy. We ... 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