San Marco Pier

If Venice Sinks then so will my Heart

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August 8th 2007
What can I say? I fell in love with Venice the second I saw it from the aeroplane window. I couldn’t even see the canals at that stage, just beautiful fields. And unlike flying over other rural areas, Venice’s fields looked like a multi-coloured patchwork quilt with fields of grapevines punctuating the flatter fields giving it amazing texture. Really, I don’t even know if the fields are the ... 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