THE LAST LEG OF OUR ITALY JOURNEY: NEAR THE TOP OF THE BOOT (VERONA AND VENICE)
April 19th 2008 For the last leg of our journey we visited two cities: Verona and Venice. After leaving our hotel in Pisa, we made the three and a half hour drive up to Verona. It was the longest stretch of driving we had to do all trip and we managed to drive it successfully without getting lost. After checking into our hotel we drove into Verona for the rest of the day. While we were in Verona, we saw the Arena
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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 
