San Marcos

Venice

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January 7th 2015
Gelato, nougat, expresso coffee, spaghetti with clams, biscotti sticks, red wine, salami, pancetta and parmesan cheese (mountain parmesan...?) Venice brings out the best in everyone, it is beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful city in the whole world. Composed of medieval and gothic facades on grand old buildings, sitting majesticaly alongside canals filled with aqua green lagoon water flooding ... 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