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Winter in Venezia (Venice)

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December 28th 2009
When Henry Miller said about travel that your destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things, he must have had Venice in mind. Being here transports you so out of the norm that it's like being in another world, even another time. We arrived on the 20th to a cold and gray day with the temperatures in the low 30s and freshly fallen snow covering the ground. The north of Italy has been ... 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