View over Grand Canal

A view over the Grand Canal as seen from one of the other bridges in Venice

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Venice - Palaces and churches en masse, but no cars

April 5th 2013
If you don't like cars, go to Venice. If you don't like big crowds, don't go to Venice In 1989 I was scheduled to visit Venice in Italy. However, I got ill and had to cancel the visit. Now during Easter I decided to try again, 24 years after the failure back when I was a teenager. This time things worked better. In one way I am actually happy I couldn’t go the first time I tried. Ven ... 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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