A few Beautiful Angels in training

The Families of Florence

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January 16th 2018
Before coming to Italy I had few ideas of what the Italian family would be like. I expected tons of love between parents and children, as well as close extended family members and households full of people. Our first night in Florence we met at the carousel in Piazza della Repubblica where I saw a crying child. She didn’t want to be on the carousel, and her mother came to her aid. I had my assum ... 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