Canals

Venice

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July 5th 2013
Our train ride to Venice from Milano was only a couple of hours long and when we arrived, we were greeted with a hot shining sun and very humid weather. Sweating buckets in a matter of minutes, we had a problem. Our last hotel in Milan didn’t have wifi and we had booked our bed and breakfast in Venice back in Lyon, along with a lot of other hotels... and we could not remember the name of our hot ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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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