Il Ponte di Sospiri

Know why this bridge is called the Bridge of Sighs? The bridge connected the Interrogation rooms at the Doge's palace to the city prison. If convicted, prisoners would be marched over the bridge and there would see their last view of Venice before incarceration... and as you may imagine, they sighed...

Venice & Siena - a little taste

May 23rd 2007
You will have to excuse these entries being posted in the wrong order, as we stopped in Italy before I arriving in our current destination of the Maldives. I hope you enjoy our tales just the same! I arrived in Venice 2 days after Cristiano on the 27th of April, and Andrea's (Cris' niece) baptism was set for 11am the next day. I was pretty tired, having spent the best part of a day and a half tra ... 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

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