View of Venice from our Hotel Balcony

Venezia - The Floating City of Romance

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April 7th 2012
Romance?? Check out the picture of our Hotel room. 5 beds in one room. What more could you ask for? The Beltrami Bunch will be spending some quality family time together for the next two nights. We left Firenze today round 11am. It was lightly raining but nothing to worry us on the drive out of Tuscano. Being Easter Saturday, the roads seemed relatively quiet and we had an easy drive north. ... 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