St Marks Square

Gondola riding in Venice

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April 8th 2006
After driving through the Italian alps for several hours from Innsbruck, we arrived at the beautiful city of Venice around 2pm. With conditions incredibly cold and windy at the grand canal, we headed straight to St Marks Basilica, a very impressive 11th century church in the very busy but grand St Marks Square. St Marks Square is full of pigeons which can be quite an annoyance ... 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