Me inside one of the courtyards of the Venitian Palace

Venice!!!!!!!!!!!!

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May 24th 2010
A Day in Venice!!! It was a VERY early in the morning when we got on the train to Venice at 7:26. It was about a 2 hour train ride with one change of trains in Monselice. When we got on our second train, there wasn’t a single seat open. I was a little worried that it was going to be a really long train ride standing up the whole way but luckily when the train got to Padova a bunch of people g ... 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