One of the many bridges

Last stop in Venice

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January 27th 2006
I heard so many comments about Venice being a smelly city and not worth seeing but I think Venice was my favorite! I ended up meeting two girls on the train while headed to Venice. One of the girls was from Elmhurst! How crazy. It was fun to talk to some Americans. It was a lot colder in Venice and it was harder to walk around everywhere because at this point we had all of our luggage (backpack an ... 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