Venice, Easter and tourist season Photo 4

Venice, Easter and tourist season

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March 26th 2008
I was stunned to find out recently that I only have about 5 weeks left in Italy! 5 weeks!! I felt like I had hardly done anything, so while watching the Stanford game on Thursday night at our favorite American bar, I decided to make a little day trip. The next morning at around 7:00 my roommate and I dragged ourselves to the train station and hopped a train to Venice for the day. I should have kno ... 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