Venice at Night

La Dolce Vita

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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