Torre dell' Orologio

The city of Canals....Venice

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December 15th 2010
Days 72 & 73, Venice, 12th & 13th December Today we were supposed to get up early for breakfast at 7:30am and then go explore Florence, but when the alarm went off, Jess just couldn’t wake up enough… All this walking and travelling is tiring business you know! So we slept in for a little, then got up packed our bags, downloaded an audio guide for Venice, had some brekky and were on our way. Th ... 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