View from our hotel room

Venice Italy

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August 1st 2008
(All photos have been added to date.) We arrived in Venice today around 2:00pm. First thing I noticed was that it was still hot. We stepped out of the train station and realized how beautiful this city is. The best thing was that Tourist information told us to take a WATER BUS to our hotel. How fun is that! You buy a ticket, line up at the dock and wait for your boat to appear. It was a gre ... 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