Outside San Marco

City of ports

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April 7th 2008
From Cinque Terre, we caught a mid-afternoon train that deposite us in Venice that evening. Needing to check into our hostel, we grabbed the first bus (a boat) and headed of to Lido, a small island just off the coast where we stayed both nights. The hostel was actually a hotel; quite an unexpected treat! We'd assumed that we would have to spin the wheel of roommates one more time, but this one ... 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