View from the Gondola

The Sinking City.

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September 22nd 2008
So I can now say that I have been to the "Sinking City", better known as Venice. Even though I only had one day to tour around and see the main sites, I left with a better understanding of how people live daily in a city with streets of water. I am amazed that people have boats for transport instead of cars. Where you can see front doors of palazzo's starting to dip below the water line because th ... 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