The Hotel

WEEKEND IN VENICE

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March 3rd 2008
At the end of February begining of March I went to Venice for a long weekend. Lovely hotel with little bridge to door (see picture), good breakfast, dry all weekend but got foggier and foggier throughout the weekend so when we went on the Ghost Tour one evening is was very 'Sherlock Holmes'! Got lost many times, only to eventually come out at St Marks Square again! Food was good but eatting or ... 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