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Italy 108 - Venice , Serenissima, the barking dogs and the crowing cockerel, that's what holidays are all about

May 8th 2016
Serenissima – the old lady of the sea Venice . She is beautiful. She sits in her lagoon check by jowl with the industry that both sucks the life out of her and gives her her lifeblood. Marghera her port and industrial side. Tourists make Venice what it is. Both a pleasure and a delight but the bane of her life. She needs tourists like a man needs water but there is a point when enough bec ... 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

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