Canal

Venetian Blinds

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May 31st 2007
We caught the 10:55am train out of Bologna Centrale headed for Venice St. Lucia station. It was probably a two and a half hour train ride through the northeastern Italy, stopping in small towns made up of four separate words and the decent sized city of Padova. I like the whole process of taking trains places because you can look out the window and at least see the areas of a country you aren’t ... 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