Street in Padua

Our final Day

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February 26th 2008
We awoke to another fog bound day…so we set out on an adventure with Joan & John Stone and Janet & Carl Sten. We boarded the train in Mestre headed to Padua (this was fairly easy and the ticket clerk was helpful). We headed to Padua to see Basilica di Sant’ Antonio “Il Santo.” We disembarked from the train and contemplated taking the tram or walking. The ticket clerk advised us that Il ... 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