beautiful venice

top deck - part six - venice

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July 31st 2008
Venice. Day 13. We left Rome, heading for Venice via the fair city of Verona, home to the Shakespeare masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet. We walked around town, saw another arena dating back to Roman times and the balcony which inspired Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet, then returned to the Coach and left for Venice. The first night at the campsite was relatively uneventful, and many of us had an ... 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