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A Venetian New Year's Celebration - December, 2015

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January 6th 2016
A Venetian New Year’s Celebration The final week of 2015 dawned bright, sunny and breath-taking cold in the Park Hotel on the shores of Lake Bled, Slovenia. Today marks the beginning of my 7-day sojourn in Venice, where I will bring in 2016 hopefully in style. Leaving this picturesque location high in the Julian Alps shortly after breakfast, the bus headed west to the Italian border ... 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