A beautiful day in Venice

Grand Canal view from a Vaporetta

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January 20th 2021
Venice 22nd November 2020 Today my tour guide along the Grand Canal was with Andrea on a “vaporetto”, the original water bus of Venice. We set off from Marco Valleresso, the smaller and older of two waterbus stations near the Piazza San Marco We passed under two of the oldest bridges - Accademia and Rialto - The Rialto Bridge since its construction as a pontoon bridge in the 12th centu ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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