St. Mark's Church

The Floating Roads of Venice

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September 20th 2006
After a VERY long ferry ride back from Greece, we arrived in Ancona to get the bus to Venice. Luckily, we got our bus and our favourite bus driver back for the rest of our tour. This will be a short blog, as I didn't really do too much when in Venice. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to do in Venice, I just didn't do it! Venice is a surreal place. I mean, I've seen on TV that the "roads ... 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