This bird will soon take of and fly across the wall

The Old and the New

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May 21st 2018
Monday today. Ian is back at school having fun with his printing processes. On Saturday after getting back from Fiesole we watched the wedding which has made me a day behind in my blog, so hopefully I can catch up on tonight. Bev and I set out early for the Palazzo Vecchio, the Old Palace. This is the huge forbidding crenellated building in Piazza del Signoria (signoria means city government) n ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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