Relaxing gondoliers

Venice Day One

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October 22nd 2014
22 October 2014 We last visited Venice about 11 years ago and with some excitement took the bus into town to re-acquaint ourselves with this famous venue. From the station it was the vaporetto, the water buses. We had meant to go along the Grand Canal but got on the wrong boat and finished up being taken along the southern edge of the city. This turned out well as in the bright and sunn ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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