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Ciao ciao Italia!

September 11th 2007
I spent my last day in Italy in Venice. I was determined to find Piazza San Marco. The piazza opens up onto a lagoon and was absolutely beautiful from all the postcards I had seen. I had missed it the first time I was in Venice so this time I went by all the shops without stopping and I found it 😊 It was indeed as beautiful as the postcards. The current look of the piazza has been shaped o ... read more
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Italian Flag 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
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