Sheep and dogs at work

Valnerina, Umbria

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June 6th 2014
Geo: 42.8874, 13.0147We set off on Wednesday shortly after 8am from Montecatini Alto taking the nerve wracking series of hairpin bends down to Terme where the streets were busy with tour buses leaving the hotels for the popular Tuscan city destinations. After a couple of wrong turns we eventually made it to the A11 motorway junction taking us round Florence then due south on the A1 which eventu ... 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