Taking another Break

Fair Verona

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April 22nd 2006
Verona was on the map long before Shakespeare decided to write that story about those famous teenyboppers, Romeo and Juliet. While Romeo and Juliet have made Verona world famous, in my opinion the city has a lot more to offer than the supposed house of the Capulets. Verona is located about 120 ks from Venice and about an hour/hour and a half depending on your train connection. Kennedy and I w ... 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