Us on the Rialto Bridge

Day 10 and 11

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May 16th 2009
Amber's Journal: This will probably be a long entry because I have to write for yesterday too. We were so exhausted we fell asleep before we could write! Yesterday was actually one of the most stressful days of our trip so far. We didn't have a phone to call our hotel in Venice so we tried to email them but the internet/computer wouldn't work and it took forever to find an internet cafe so we end ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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