Grand Canal

Summer Colors in Venice

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July 20th 2009
For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com It seemed so suitable for me to begin my first European venture in one of its most remarkable cities: Venice. For me, Venice was everything I expected it to be, but my expectations were very high. In a sense Venice is like a microcosm of Europe as a travel destination, to me at least. It is beautiful, stunningly so. At e ... 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