Gardaland View

Influences From Disney – Not Least The Heat and The Queues

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August 11th 2009
We couldn’t put it off any longer. Today, we headed off to Gardaland, the main theme park in the area. It’s very Disney-like in many respects, but without all the princesses and people dressed-up as mice (see ). The theme character here is a dragon and we saw him walking around, but we didn’t queue for photos. I can’t imagine where they got the idea to call one of the rides - Thun ... 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