P1000452

Venezia

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September 21st 2009
After a whirlwind taxi ride to Camucia station, and a ticket machine in Italian only, we managed to secure ourselves two tickets to Florence (it was either there or Rome and that was in the wrong direction…). Mind you, I lost 12 Euros in the process as the machine did not give change!!! But we managed to haul our luggage down the stairs and back up the other side and then up steps onto the tra ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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