Venisa's "liquid gold"

Torcello, Mazarbo and Burano - Islands of Venice

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August 18th 2017
We left early to avoid the crowds and caught a boat to Torcello(Population 8/Tourists 000’s). It was rather lovely to be away from concrete and cobbled streets to some wild vegetation and marshland. Torcello was founded in the early 7th century - before Venezia - so holds the oldest church of the Venetian islands. We had a fabulous guide who has her doctorate in Art History and made the chu ... 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