Piazza San Marco

Pigeons

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September 2nd 2009
Since I'm here in Venice for nearly four months "homeschooling" my kids, I've been scouring websites, using search terms like "Venice with kids" and "children in Venice" and they all say pretty much the same thing: go to Piazza San Marco and have your kids feed the pigeons. That didn't interest me. How many minutes was that good for? Besides, I have some partially formulated ideas about bi ... 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