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Venice - Day 4

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April 29th 2016
Today was just a travel day. Our hotel in Lugano was in a great place, right in the middle of the shops and restaurants. Lugano looks over a lake and has very beautiful gardens and fountains surrounding the lake. But unfortunately the train station we had to go to in the afternoon is up a massive hill....not a hill you could do easily carrying two suitcases. So we took the bus up to the top of the ... 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