verona

The sweetest smelling city

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June 2nd 2010
I made a great decision in coming to Verona today as the weather was glorious yet pouring with rain in Venice. Luckily there was a train station quite close to my hotel which I could walk to and that meant I was only 1 hour by train from Verona. Right outside the station I was able to pick up the open top tourist bus. I did almost a complete lap to get my bearings and in the process saw the castel ... 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