Doges Palace

Doing Venice Vaporetti Style

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October 16th 2009
Defintion of Vaporetti Style: Where you get liters of wine for 2 euros and drink them while you are waiting for the sllllooowww water bus to arrive, and because you can just do that kind of stuff in Italy 😊 Brrr Im freezing! It has been so cold here the last few days. The beginning of my trip was glorious- 75 and sunny everyday. Then all of the sudden it got down to like 45-50 and windy! W ... 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