Juliet's Statue

Woopsy!

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November 24th 2006
OK, so it looks like I really stink about updating my blog. Sorry. 😞 But since I've last blogged I went to Verona, Padua, and Venice! So I'll write about my adventrues there, starting now! So the school took us to Verona on Friday, November 10. Once again, we left the train station in Rome really early and everyone seemed to be annoyed by my unusual perkiness. Oh well! I can't help it-- ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Verona

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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