Bologna

Viva Italia!

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March 16th 2011
Buongiorno! The flight from Cologne to Bologna was pretty painless, Aaron had me thinking it was going to be a tiny plane, but it was pretty average, got to fly over the Swiss Alps which was amazing to see! We arrived in Bologna on 3/11 and found our hotel to be directly over a canal, and we were lucky enough to have a room that had windows open right above it. I knew the sound of flowing water ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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