Pillars on waterfront Piazza San Marco

Venice Italy

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April 21st 2011
First a bit on the traveling part because these parts took up a significant part of a day and I think are the most useful pieces of information for others also traveling (and maybe to people who do not know me that are possibly searching these blogs for just this bit of information). We paid an insane amount to get a taxi to the Athens airport but mostly because we had to go during morning rus ... 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