Lake Garda 3

Getting Lost in Venice

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June 27th 2007
We arrived in Venice ahead of schedule, and our first excursion was to drive down to Verona to check it out for a few hours. Verona was a cool little city, which we thought was exceptionally clean for an Italian city. Before checking out the shops we did the usual tourist thing and checked out Juliet's balcony! Once our time was up in Verona it was time to head back to Venice to our hotel. To s ... 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