Palermo from Monreale

Monreale

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September 28th 2017
A bit slow off the pace today but we thought we would endeavour to bus to Monreale as the weather forecast was still threatening thunderstorms...(which never arrived). Two buses connected us to Monreale, the second was to be 10-15mins later, however that ened up being 1hour later (yes we waited for it). So we finally made it on a journey that was supposed to be 30mins but took 1hour....now we k ... 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