Piazza San Marco

Venice

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April 8th 2006
Hey! Last week was exchange week for me. Exchange week is exchange between cities and gives exchange students a chance to see cities they probably wouldn’t have seen were it not for this wonderful idea. For my week I went to Venice! On Saturday I arrived and my host family came to pick me up from the train station. Before even going to the house, the two sisters, Silvia and Elisa, and I we ... 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