Courtyard of the Doge's Palace

Ciao Bella!

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November 18th 2008
Milan didn’t get much better. We asked our hostel manager for a recommendation for dinner and he directed us to a restaurant that serves Italian AND Chinese food. So the menu went from bruschetta, lasagna and tortellini to orange chicken, beef and broccoli and egg drop soup… Sketchy! But we made the best of it. I forced Rachael to get out of bed at 4:30 the next morning to catch the 6:55 ... 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