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Day 26 - July 10 - Wandering Venice

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July 10th 2010
Breakfast was served in our room at 9am, a simple fare of coffee, croissants, and jam. We ate it and our remaining fruit looking out our window to the Grand Canal. Then we set out to do what we had heard was the best thing to do - wander the streets of Venice. Our hotel had provided us with a perfect little pocket map to Venice, which we used to navigate for the next six days and which I wish I ... 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