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Walking the streets my grandfather Mchaelangelo played in...

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May 5th 2018
Wow. Blown away by walking in my ancestral town, meeting and talking and eating with people who knew of my grandfather and his ancestors. The mayor of the town signed a book of the town for me, a gift from a family member of my cousin. Pictures below are the home my grandfather grew up in...very late 1800s/early 1900s (home to rear right of monument). Followed by the mountain river, Esaro, and tow ... read more

Europe » Italy » Calabria

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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