Lake Como 3

Lake Como

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March 30th 2008
Lake Como is absolutely gorgeous! The lake itself is more of a really wide river than a lake. It's pretty skinny for a lake, and it's shaped like an upside down Y. All together, it covers an extremely large distance. It took us an hour by bus to get from Como to Menaggio. The first night, we made potatoe filled gniochi in the microwave which turned out OK somehow and went to bed since we were exha ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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