Train ride through the Alps

Verona. The City of Romeo & Juliet

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August 22nd 2010
After 13 hours of travel, and only a few hours of napping on the train, we made it to Verona! What a fairytale we are in!!! After Schwandorf we took a train to Munich. From Munich to Verona was the most beautiful landscape you could imagine! We traveled through the Swiss and Italian Alps. The mountains look similar to those of the Sierras in California—they are steep and more jagged, but have ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Verona

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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