Pope Clement XII

Palazzo Corsini

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May 23rd 2018
This has to be the highlight of our stay in Florence. Bev and I found the entrance to Palazzo Corsini on via Parione. The large wooden doors lead into a courtyard where Contessa Lucrezia parked her tiny little white car. She was very welcoming to us and the four other people who joined us, a couple from Belgium and a mother and daughter from France. Ian couldn’t join us as his class had a tour ... 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