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Venice!

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August 1st 2011
Ciao! Christopher and I got back from VENICE last night! It was our weekend off, and we were able to hop on a bus with the high school kids for free! We stayed at a hotel just a couple of blocks away from St. Mark's Square, and the weather was pretty cool by Venetian standards. The only touristy thing that we did was tour the Guggenheim Museum, and other than that we strolled the streets as ... 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