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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Padua - Padova | No Comments »
Extensively reconstructed after the damage caused by bombing in World War II, and hemmed in by the sprawl that has accompanied its development as the most important economic centre ... Read more..History
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Naples | No Comments »
There was a settlement here, Parthenope , as early as the ninth century BC, but it was superseded by a colony formed by the Greek ... Read more..Castello Sforzesco
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Milan / Milano | No Comments »
At the far end of Via Dante from Piazza del Duomo, Castello Sforzesco rises imperiously from the mayhem of Foro Buonaparte, a congested and distinctly ... Read more..Modern Genoa
Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Genoa - Genova | No Comments »
In the nineteenth century, Genoa began to expand beyond its old-town constraints. The newer districts begin with the large central Piazza de Ferrari , from where ... Read more..Unification
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in History of Italy | No Comments »
The fall of Napoleon led to the Vienna Settlement of 1815, by which the Austrians effectively restored the old ruling class. Metternich , the Austrian Chancellor, did all he could ... Read more..