A nice view of San Marco's piazza

The building on the right is the Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) and on the left is the campanile (bell tower). The view is a lot nicer from farther away! :)

The secret of the stench of Venice

August 7th 2008
Thursday, August 7th I managed to wake up before noon today! and set out for Giudecca to see two of the women's institutions (i.e. convents) about which I am writing in my dissertation. The Convertite (the Converted), which was originally created to house "fallen women"- i.e. ex-prostitutes and concubines who left their sinful lives and instead devoted their lives to God. In a not-so-ironic twis ... 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

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