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Venice

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May 24th 2017
I spent the day in Venice and it was nice to be back. I took the train to get there. That is why I chose the hotel in Padua: for its proximity to both the tram (for seeing Padua) and to the train (for seeing Venice). I felt a comfortable sense of the familiar on arrival in Venice because Maggie and I have been there before. I got a day pass for the vaporetto (the boat equivalent of a bus in this c ... 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