The Piazza

From Venezia to Milano

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October 26th 2009
Aqua alta hit Venice for the first time during our stay last week and the city went underwater!!! (well, kind of!) We got rain for the second time since we've been here (who said Venice always rains???) and the city flooded a few inches. We went over during the afternoon to hit up the Museo Correr and the water had pretty much receded, but the lowest part of the city, the Piazza San Marco, was sti ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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