Our Venetian Times - Seconda Parte - (part 2 but you probably got that this time ;) )
July 24th 2012 We slept in a bit on Saturday morning, some of the running and multple trains/flights finally catching up a bit, and the shutters on the windows fooled us into thinking it was earlier than it was. We got up around 10:00 that morning and headed out. We didn't really have a schedule for the day so we set out to find St. Mark's Square and the waterfront where the fireworks would be later that
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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 
