This is a side view, as you might be able to tell. The humongous piazza is on the left, and the building with the Gutenberg Bible is on the left side facing the piazza from the side closest to us. Cool eh?
Ciao to Claudia and Venezia :( and my first run in Italy :) June 26th 2011 Ok, so I was right about the fact that we wouldn’t have any kind of internet service last night in Lido… so I didn’t post the little miniature entry yesterday for nothing! So here goes two days worth of blog entry for you! Buckle up, because it might be a long one… (I hope not… that means I’d have to type it all… 😊 )
So we left the house and started to drive to where Claudia ... read more
Europe » Italy » Veneto » Lido 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