Altar Pieces at Accademia Museum

Accademia Museum and Gondola ride

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September 18th 2010
Our lecture yesterday afternoon prepared us for the visit this morning to the Accademia Musem. In this Museum paintings are grouped according to period and school. For lunch, we had a great experience at Casin de Nobili, Zattere at Gesuti on the Canale della Giuidecca. It was a beautiful sunny day and our lunch was served "family Style" on the deck right on the Canale della Giuidecca, We all ... 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