venice!

Beautiful Venice

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November 4th 2007
I needed to use my Eurail for Italy so I decided to do a day trip to Venice and Pisa this weekend. That Friday I went with Courtney and Blake to Cafe Liberta then hopped on a train to Venice! I fell in love with the city! It is absolutely gorgeous! The canals are the roads and the water is so blue! Imagine a city where the roads are waterways and the sidewalks are cobblestone walkways arou ... 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