Gondola cruise

Venice, Italy

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May 10th 2007
Venizia is the local name, apparently in the days before writing there were locals had different names to what foreign travellers used. Thursday Travelled to Venice, we had 2 days there, Had dinner and a night tour of the city. Spent the whole of the next day there just looking around and some shopping. Venice is a group of about 180 little islands just off the mainland, the waterways are ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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