Glass Factory-062709

Venice ReDo

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June 27th 2009
After an evening in the Venice maze everyone was pretty worn out. A combination of the late night jaunt through town and residual jet lag made for a late start on Saturday. A promise of breakfast in the morning was ‘..let’s meet at 1pm..’ when we all finally got up at noon. We hopped on a water taxi into town with the goal of lunch and wandering the streets to San Marco Square, to get a c ... 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