Venezia

Italy Part 2

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January 22nd 2013
‘Prego!’ Apparently it means ‘You’re welcome!’ but it seems to fit at the beginning, the middle and the end of every conversation. Venezia was every bit of much a treat as it was 36 years ago: gondolas, water taxis, water buses, steps up and down thousands of tiny bridges, churches, palaces, plazas, the jail from which Casanova escaped… We witnessed a magnificent hissy f ... 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