La Scala Trattoria

Italy, Venice

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September 1st 2013
The ferry trip across the Adriatic from Split to Ancona was smooth and comfortable. Lyn and I ended up in a VIP cabin somehow which was spacious and on the top deck. We arrived in Ancona, a port city, on time just before 0800, disembarked then had 4 hours to kill before our train to Venice. So we ambled through some dingy looking streets aiming for food. It was hard to come by in the area we were ... 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