Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore

Mellowing in Italy - Florence, Tuesday 2007 May 22

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May 22nd 2007
(Wednesday 5:20 pm – I am writing these travel notes on the top of the tower of our hotel. Although there are clangs and bangs and a bit of traffic and horse clip-clopping from the streets far below, it is very peaceful. The birds are singing from many bell towers. At 5:00 the Duomo peeled out for several minutes. (Pause to take a couple’s photo). But it is too hot and sunny to stay longer, pl ... 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