A Venetian Bridge

The City on the Water

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February 10th 2008
I am happy to report that I made it back in one piece from our first "backpacking" adventure. Everything actually work out pretty well, we found our trains and managed not to get too lost in Venezia. We caught the train early Saturday morning from the chaos that was the train station in Firenze. There were crazy people running around all over the place. The train was so cool though, we had our ... 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