Category: Ita’s World

  Scotland was settled by the Celtic peoples during the Bronze and early Iron Age. An independent country in the Middle Ages, it was amalgamated with England as a result of the union of the Crowns in 1603 and of the Parliaments in 1707. Based on clans, the distinctive Celtic society of the Highlands was destroyed in the aftermath of the Jacobite Uprisings in 1715 and 1745-6 and the Highland clearances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.   One…

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Just walking in the streets of Florence’s ancient centre is an exploration of over 2,000 years of its tumultuous history. The city became one of the greatest art centres in the world. From Popes to peasants the social, political and religious life of the city is renowned for its medieval stories, revolts and events that shocked the Florentines. The Medici, a powerful family of merchants and bankers, dominated Florence from 1437 to 1737 and used their wealth to patronise…

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