hotel rialto - teeny tiny room

Venice - day 25

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August 31st 2011
Geo: 45.4345, 12.3384VENEZIA! flamboyant, bourgeois city, all glitzy and very picture-postcard pretty - but a bit useless overall...i had the whole evening and morning free and pretty much saw everything there was to see before my afternoon city tour (slightly hindered by long lines at the post office)...but it was good in the end because the guide gave us info about how the city was built, and ... 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