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Celebrating a birthday in Venice

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February 25th 2010
This blog has been a long time coming - the two weeks in October which were spent touring around Italy (Venezia/Milano/Firenze) were over-whelming. I had never been across the Atlantic before, and Canada certainly doesn't have medieval cities like Europe. While in Venice, eight of us shared a palazzo, and cooked for ourselves/each other and walked everywhere. For the Patrick's birthday dinner, the ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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