The parks of the Arsenale.

If a Venetian ever tells you "just around the corner"...........

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October 7th 2012
Buongiorno from Venice, Venice is visited by 21,000,000 people every year. They come on trains, ships, buses and cars to a city that has only water on which to travel, so the cars, trains, buses and ships are left at the gateway of the city. There are no cars, trucks, motorcycles or forklift trucks in Venice just boats and people power. 60,000 people are local residents here in Venice; these pe ... 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