Hanging by a thread

Venice!

---

April 4th 2008
On Friday morning we woke up pretty early, checked out of Hotel Demo, and made our way to the train station to head to Venice. We ended up waiting about 2 hours for the next train, and then had about a 2 hour train ride on top of that. We still made it into Venice around 1:30pm. Once we got there, we were greeted by a beautiful beautiful city...Venice is built entirely on water, there are no ca ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

---

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