The Grand Canal, Venice

so much pasta...so little time....

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September 30th 2010
Venice was great! A place you have to see to believe.....We took the train to Florence yesterday and saw lots of the Italian countryside....Melanie...if you are reading this, I may have met your future husband at dinner last night! hee hee hee I am going to try and upload some pictures as I bought a little gizmo in Switzerland that should work! We are going to hop on hop off around Florence ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

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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