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Off to Venice

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April 21st 2009
We had mostly packed last night, so we had only a few things to get ready this morning before Stefano came to pick us up at 7:00 am. In short time we were in the train station in Codroipo and had about half an hour to wait for the Venice train. As we are coming back to the house, we had only a small knapsack each to carry which made getting on this regional train much easier than normal. The tr ... 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