Afternoon Out with the Cousins 04 Canal

Afternoon Out with the Cousins

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September 28th 2016
Geo: 45.4096, 11.8766After lunch this afternoon Jenny and Fabio arrived. They were taking Michael and I out for the afternoon. We were going to Padua. I had been there before, but it was many years ago. The road was quite busy and it took us about forty minutes to get there. We drove around the edge of the city, along the canal and the old city walls. We parked, started walking and soon arrive ... read more

Europe » Italy » Veneto » Padua

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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