Beautiful Canal

Venice with Irish Friends!

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May 1st 2009
We took a day trip from Marco's house in Udine to explore Venice. We met three of this Irish friends in Udine and decided to go to Venice with two of them, while the other was back home at work. Poor Clio! We arrived in good time and decided to walk around the grand canal. We were so excited to be there and it was really the first time we felt like we were actually in Italy. We then spent time wal ... 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