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Just around the corner from the turtle fountain, a little way up Via Caetani on the right, is a memorial to the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro , whose ... Read more..Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Bari | No Comments »
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Bari is a fairly compact city, running from the train station in the gridded new city down to the bulging old centre, the città vecchia , ... Read more..Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
In the 1970s the situation worsened: bankruptcies increased, inflation hit twenty percent, and unemployment rocketed. More extreme forms of unrest broke out, instigated in the first instance by the far ... Read more..Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
A popular mandate declared Italy a republic in 1946, and Alcide de Gasperi's Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party formed a government. He remained in power until 1953, sustained by a succession ... Read more..