sur le pont de Venezia

The Jackboot of Italy

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April 15th 2008
The last entry was traumatic and contained absoloutely no photos, this next one is going to be more like light reading with pictures. We made it to Venice, and planned to stay there for all of about two and a half hours. Mainly because we dont have any friends who live there and the thought of spending a night in a tourist mecca made us shudder. We were booked on a connecting train to Rome in t ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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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