St Marks Square

Venice

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May 12th 2012
Day 1 - To Venice Another traveling day and another early start! A few train changes later and we arrived in Venice!! We checked in to our hotel which was one that Chris had stayed at previously. He had mentioned that when we booked and it looked like it payed off as we got quite a nice room, which looked straight out onto a canal! Having seen a few of the other rooms, we got a pretty bi ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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