Lineadombra

Gretchen and I are sitting at that nice restaurant in Venice that is on the Adriatic Sea. Unfortunately, you can't see any of the water in the background. But if you look closely, you can see a domed church just over my right shoulder.

La Dolce Vita

October 21st 2006
Buon giorno! Gretchen and I have just left Venezia (Venice) and are currently on a train going to Firenze (Florence), home of the Italian Renaissance . We had a wonderful time in Venice. We got there Sunday night after a three hour train ride from Milano. Because it was late, we caught a taxi from the train station in Venice to our hotel, which was close to Venice’s Marco Polo Airport. Once ... 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

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