Set of the Teatro

Palladio and Perissinotto family

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June 6th 2010
Geo: 45.5459, 11.5403Up early the next morning – Elio's cousin Maria Teresa and her husband Valerio were driving from Milan to catch up with us, and had agreed to meet us in Vicenza (about half way from Milan). We arrived in the city to find some sort of bike race which involved the same guys going round and round the old city, blocking access – but fortune shined on us again a ... 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