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| | Bologna & San Marino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Last weekend, we flew into Bologna, and then drove around the north of Italy, visiting Predappio and the ancient Byzantine city of Ravenna, and did a little foray into the tiny Republic of San Marino, a mini-state totally surrounded by Italy. |
 | | We bade farewell to the city, passing a boulevard that reminds us of Bologna’s leftist past (Stalingrado), and sped across the foggy plains of Emilia-Romagna, one of Italy’s richest regions and a land once dominated with city states many of which once formed part of the Pope’s personal fief, the Papal States. |
 | | Predappio, for an Italian town, seems to have a higher density of Italian flags than anywhere else, perhaps with the exception of Little Italy, New York. |
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