Overlooking Rialto Bridge

Today Venice - Afternoon Florance

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June 13th 2006
Hello to all! It is Tuesday morning 9 a.m. The hotel we are staying at overlooks a canal. That is if you hang out of the window and look three stories down. It is beautiful. We arrived into Venice yesterday afternoon, changed, grabbed the swim suits and were off. We had taken water bus taxi to the island of Lido. When you get off the water taxi the walk is ten minutes straight to the other side of ... 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