me on the stone steps

Parco Sempione and Arco della Pace

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March 14th 2007
A monument originally called "The Arch of Victories" was intended as a monument to the victories of Napoleon. When he fell from power in 1814 the arch wasn't yet finished. The Austrian Emperor had it finished, except he changed its name to "The Arch of Peace" in commemoration of the 1815 European Pean Treaty. Despite the dreary weather, I enjoyed my stroll through this park on the way to th ... 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