The Rialto Bridge

My Italian Adventure

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March 3rd 2008
Wow! Where do I begin? Well I spent this past week in Italy. On the 22nd, my friends Phoebe Rebecca and I flew to Venice. Our flight arrived on time and we took a water bus in to San Marco. It was so foggy! We couldn't see anything 10 feet in front of us- it was all strange shapes and outlines. We got lost for an hour looking for our hotel. All the streets meander into one another and there's no s ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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