Me n Becs

Vatican & Venice

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August 18th 2006
Well we are now on our last night here in Italy and our trip is just a little over half way done. at first time creeped by but now its flying waaaay too fast!! Awoke very very very very very early yesterday morning to make it to the Vatican before we had to take off for Venice. Since it had been closed for the past 2 days for the holiday the queue was crrrrazy!!! People must have been camped o ... 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