St. Marck's square

Venice

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March 5th 2009
This was our first pleasure trip to Europe and what better place to start than Venice in Italy! We landed at the airport, took a shuttle to the vaporato and then checked into the hotel almost at midnight. We were hungry and stepped out to have dinner and lo and behold we saw 3000 people chatting away to glory in a square, it looked most surreal! In the next 2 days there we we strunned by the beau ... read more

Europe » Italy » Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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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